Settlement, Canada, Class Action

Cinq tendances récentes en matière de règlement des actions collectives au Québec

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 6/6/2025

Les actions collectives constituent un mécanisme juridique essentiel au Québec, et les tendances récentes montrent une évolution marquée des modalités de règlement. Voici cinq principaux développements récents en matière de...more

Capital One Reaches $190 Million Settlement In Connection with 2019 Data Breach

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 2/22/2022

The saga of the Capital One data breach, which impacted an estimated 106 million individuals in the U.S. and Canada, may soon be coming to an end. After more than two years of litigation, the parties have reached a settlement...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 9/5/2018

Big tech (including Facebook, Google [theoretically], and Twitter) is heading back to the Hill (with @jack pulling double-duty, because that’s how he rolls). Here’s what to expect today based on their prepared testimony....more

On the Road: SCC Allows Class Action Judges to Hold Extraprovincial Hearings in Certain Circumstances

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 10/25/2016

On October 20, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled that a provincial superior court judge may sit outside his or her home province to hear motions without live evidence in national class actions proceedings in...more

Uncharted Territory: Individual Settlements in Certified Class Actions

Bennett Jones LLP on 4/8/2015

Despite the passage of more than 20 years since the enactment of Ontario’s Class Proceedings Act, 1992, there is limited jurisprudence on post-certification procedures. In his recent decision in Lundy v Via Rail Canada Inc,...more

Regulatory Proceedings and Class Actions: The Supreme Court of Canada Speaks on Preferable Procedure

Bennett Jones LLP on 12/13/2013

On December 12, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) released its fourth major class action decision in two months: AIC Limited et al v Dennis Fischer et al (Fischer). This case concerns whether a class action is the...more

Superior Court of Justice Makes Unilateral Amendment to Plan of Distribution in Class Action Settlement Zaniewicz v Zungui Haixi...

Bennett Jones LLP on 9/6/2013

On August 27, 2013, Justice Perell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released a decision in Zaniewicz v Zungui Haixi Corporation approving a class action settlement, but which varied the proposed plan of distribution...more

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