Articles 2023

Welcome to the inaugural OBA Class Action Newsletter. We have witnessed a number of exciting firsts this year.

I have been asked to provide a few brief remarks on the American Bar Association’s recent resolution to adopt protocols establishing best practice guidelines for U.S.-Canada cross-border class actions.

In the wake of the Court of Appeal of Ontario ruling in ,em>Smith v. Inco Limited, 10 years after the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Hollick v. Toronto (City), should we conclude that claimants in environmental class actions in Ontario are doomed to fail?

A recent decision by Justice Strathy of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has provided substantive and definitive support for third-party funding arrangements for class proceedings in this province.

Many lawyers and activists contemplate alternatives for advancing social justice through law. The topic was one of the issues addressed at the OBA 8th Annual Conference on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.