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"Class actions are increasingly playing a significant role in providing access to justice to people who have experienced a common wrong. The volume of class actions jurisprudence in Canada has increased exponentially in recent years. Containing insights from two of the foremost Canadian class action jurists and a leading academic in the field, this text offers a comprehensive review of the ever-expanding law of class actions from trial and appellate courts across Canada"--Publisher.
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Table of Contents
1. The nature and process of class proceedings
2. Certification: general principles and evidentiary issues
3. The cause of action criterion
4. Defining the class
5. Common issues
6. Preferable procedure
7. The representative plaintiff and the litigation plan
8. Interlocutory motions
9. Notice and communication to the class
10. Opting in, opting out, and the binding effect of judgments and settlements
11. Decertification, amendment of the certification order, discontinuance, and abandonment
12. Multi-jurisdictional, national and global class actions
13. Aggregate assessment of damages and statistical evidence
14. Resolving individual issues and distributing individual awards
15. Limitation periods
16. Settlement approval
17. Administration of judgments and settlements
18. Appeals
19. Costs
20. Fees and disbursements
21. Other representative proceedings
22. Ethical issues and conflicts of interest.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.