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Craig Lockwood

Partner, Disputes, Toronto

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In Canadian Class Action Defence, we provide timely, reliable and practical information about defending national and international class actions involving Canadian courts. We share strategic insights on preventing, preparing for, managing and resolving cross-border class actions, both nationally and internationally, using specific cases or developments as the springboard for our discussion. Since Canada does not have a mechanism to centralize class actions brought in different provinces on behalf of the same class (unlike U.S. MDL), managing overlapping class actions in Canadian jurisdictions poses some unique challenges. In this blog, we consider how best to manage these challenges as well as highlighting the differences between jurisdictions.

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Blog September 18, 2018

Paradis Honey: Federal Court chooses sides on sticky issue of post-certification discovery

The ambit of post-certification documentary discovery is a contentious issue. Is it limited by the certified common issues, or are the parties’...

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Blog September 17, 2018

Defendants awarded $2.3 million in costs in unsuccessful beer price class action

In 2014, plaintiffs David Hughes and 631992 Ontario Inc. (the Plaintiffs) commenced an ultimately unsuccessful $1.4-billion class action against the...

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Blog August 2, 2018

BC Court of Appeal sets aside certification in Basyal v Mac’s Convenience Stores Inc

We previously wrote about the B.C. Supreme Court’s order in Basyal v Mac’s Convenience Stores Inc., which certified a class action by...

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Blog July 12, 2018

Disclosure of forensic experts’ findings in data breach class action results in waiver of privilege

A recent decision in a data breach class action highlights potential challenges in maintaining privilege over reports prepared by third party...

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Blog July 5, 2018

Confronting cultures of harassment: Class actions on the rise in the wake of #MeToo?

The last year has seen a swell of class actions alleging bullying, harassment and other systemic misconduct in the workplace. Mostly recently, on...

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Blog July 3, 2018

Only the clearest release will stop a class action : Superior Court of Québec authorizes class action by former employees against Air Canada

On May 15, 2018, the Superior Court of Québec rendered judgment in Mc Mullen v. Air Canada, authorizing a class action against the airline by former...

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Blog June 28, 2018

Ontario Court introduces cy-près requirement as condition of class fee approval

In Welsh v Ontario, Justice Perell asserted the court’s role in ensuring that class counsel’s fees are fair and reasonable in light of...

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Blog June 26, 2018

Ontario and Alberta face-off in multijurisdictional hockey player class action

Parallel class proceedings – where the same or similar causes of action and allegations are advanced by plaintiffs in support of proposed class...

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Blog June 22, 2018

Ontario Judge Rejects $75 Million Fee for Class Counsel

In Brown v Canada (Attorney General), 2018 ONSC 3429, Ontario judge Justice Belobaba rejected the proposed Sixties Scoop Canadian national settlement...

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Blog June 13, 2018

Too punitive: Québec Court of Appeal cuts award of punitive damages down to size

On May 11, 2018, the Québec Court of Appeal rendered its decision in Vidéotron v Girard, 2018 QCCA 767. Vidéotron was appealing a Superior Court...

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