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Class Action Grounded: Court Finds Insufficient Factual Basis for Airline Capacity Constraint Suit

The Ontario Superior Court recently refused to certify a class action against four international airlines. The plaintiff alleged that the airlines conspired to constrain capacity for transborder travel between the United...more

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Class Actions: Looking Forward 2025

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We begin with developments of national significance. First, we discuss the amendments to the Competition Act which, effective June 2025, could open the door to a novel quasi-class action scheme entitling private plaintiffs to...more

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Competition Act Amendments Open Door to Quasi Class Actions

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Since 2022, the Government of Canada has substantially amended the Competition Act each year for three successive years. Among the many changes are a collection of related amendments which aim to expand access to the...more

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BC Court of Appeal Confirms “No hire” Clause Not Intended to Injure Employees

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In Latifi v The TDL Group Corp., 2025 BCCA 45, (Latifi) the BC Court of Appeal upheld the summary dismissal of a proposed class action against the Tim Hortons franchisor in Canada. The underlying dispute between the...more

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Class Actions in Ontario: 10 Highlights from 2024

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2024 was an active year in the class action arena. In this post, our Litigation group in Toronto discusses noteworthy developments over the past twelve months. While our focus is on cases and other developments affecting...more

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Class Actions: Looking Forward 2024

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In our 2024 edition of Looking Forward, we review notable class action developments from the past year and consider what recent trends in the law might tell us about what to expect in the years ahead....more

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Class Action Practice: 10 Highlights from 2023

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The arrival of 2024 marked the end of a year filled with class action activity. Our Litigation group in Toronto has prepared a list of some of the more notable cases (and other developments) of 2023, with a focus on Ontario....more

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Difederico v. Amazon.com Inc.: Federal Court Finds Proposed Class Action has no Prospect of Success

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In Difederico v. Amazon.com, 2023 FC 1156, the Federal Court refused to certify a proposed class action involving allegations that a collection of Amazon entities (“Amazon”) had breached sections 45 and 46 of the Competition...more

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Certification of Collective Actions in the CAT

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To bring a collective competition action in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”), a proposed class representative first has to have their claim certified by the CAT. The CAT’s approach to certification is therefore an...more

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Competition Class Actions: The New Normal?

Competition class actions, an increasingly frequent occurrence, involve an alleged violation of the Competition Act’s criminal provisions related to conspiracies to fix prices, restrict output, allocate markets or practise...more

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Cartel Conduct: Courts Reject Conspiracy Claims in Proposed Class Actions

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Recent decisions from the British Columbia Supreme Court in Latifi v. The TDL Group Corp., 2021 BCSC 2183 and the Federal Court of Canada in Jensen v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., 2021 FC 1185 involved proposed class action...more

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Des tribunaux fédéral et provincial refusent d’autoriser des actions collectives en matière de droit de la concurrence

Deux décisions rendues récemment, l’une par la Cour suprême de la Colombie-Britannique (la « CSCB »), l’autre par la Cour fédérale du Canada (la « Cour fédérale »), laissent entendre que les tribunaux sont de plus en plus...more

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Provincial and Federal Courts Decline to Advance Competition Act Claims in Proposed Class Actions

Two decisions recently rendered by the Supreme Court of British Columbia (B.C. Court) and the Federal Court of Canada (Federal Court) suggest a growing judicial willingness to limit, or even put an end to, proposed class...more

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Canadian Competition Law and Foreign Investment: Top 5 Things to Watch for in 2019

New Leadership at the Competition Bureau - A new Commissioner of Competition (Commissioner) is expected to be appointed in the first half of 2019. The Commissioner has significant discretion to investigate and bring...more

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British Columbia Supreme Court Rejects “File, Smile and Certify” Approach to Class Actions

The British Columbia Supreme Court (Court) recently dismissed the plaintiff’s application for class certification in Ewert v. Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (Ewert), holding that certification is not simply a “file, smile and...more

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Canada's Supreme Court Opens the Door to Indirect Purchaser Class Actions

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On October 31, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released three decisions which many commentators had predicted would be the most critical antitrust class action decisions in recent memory. The Supreme Court did not...more

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