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Craig Lockwood

Partner, Disputes, Toronto

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In Canadian Class Action Defence, we provide timely, reliable and practical information about defending national and international class actions involving Canadian courts. We share strategic insights on preventing, preparing for, managing and resolving cross-border class actions, both nationally and internationally, using specific cases or developments as the springboard for our discussion. Since Canada does not have a mechanism to centralize class actions brought in different provinces on behalf of the same class (unlike U.S. MDL), managing overlapping class actions in Canadian jurisdictions poses some unique challenges. In this blog, we consider how best to manage these challenges as well as highlighting the differences between jurisdictions.

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Blog February 4, 2016

Take Two: Aggregate Damages Award Upheld at Ontario Court of Appeal

In our previous blog post in 2014, we had reported the Ontario Superior Court in Ramdath v George Brown College had granted the first award of...

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Blog January 28, 2016

Federal Court Refuses to Certify Class Proceeding as “Representative Proceeding” Preferable Procedure

In his December 9, 2015 decision in Canada (Royal Mounted Police) v. Canada (Attorney General) (“Jones”), Justice Locke of the Federal Court...

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Blog January 22, 2016

Court of Appeal Dismisses Pet Valu Class Action and Confirms Courts not to Recast Common Issues where Prejudicial to Defendants

A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in the Pet Valu franchise class action should give defendants to class proceedings optimism that...

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Blog January 14, 2016

Concurrent Applications for Authorization to Institute a Class Action: The Quebec Approach

Where multiple aspiring class representatives file concurrent applications involving the same parties, concerning the same object and presenting...

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