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Parallel Class Actions in Canada

By Stephen Pitel

Canadian provincial courts continue to analyze how to manage class actions that include class members from other provinces.  While Canada is a federal country, it is acceptable for the court in a province to certify a class that includes members from other provinces.  A difficulty arises if two provinces are each asked to certify a multijurisdictional class [...] Related posts:Supreme Court of Canada Addresses Role of Parallel Proceedings in Stay Applications Canada’s highest court has delivered its judgment in Teck Cominco...Developments in the Recognition of Foreign Class Action Judgments With the courts of Canadian provinces willing to take jurisdiction...BIICL event: Group Actions, including Class Actions: Cross-border Aspects As part of the BIICL?s 2007-2008 Seminar Series on Private...

Full post as published by Conflict of Laws on March 02, 2009 (boomark / email).