Worldwide: Class Actions

Canada's Supreme Court has formally recognized a new tort of intimate partner violence, acknowledging that coercive control and patterns of abuse within relationships constitute legally actionable harm.

Les tribunaux canadiens adoptent une approche de plus en plus restrictive envers les actions collectives pour incidents de confidentialité, particulièrement en Ontario et en Alberta, tandis que de nouvelles tendances...

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The Quebec Court of Appeal has clarified how levies to the Fonds d'aide aux actions collectives must be calculated when residual amounts remain after class action distributions.

Recent Canadian case law demonstrates that limitation defences are no longer categorically off-limits at class action certification. Courts will now engage with limitations arguments where they expose fundamental deficiencies in the proposed proceeding, potentially narrowing class definitions, defeating certification entirely, or informing preferability analyses—though fact-intensive disputes remain reserved for summary judgment or trial.

Le 16 avril 2026, dans l’affaire Larouche v. PGM ResidualCo Holdings Inc. (disponible en anglais seulement), la Cour suprême de la Colombie-Britannique (la « CSCB »)...

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario from March 2, 2026 to March 6, 2026.

If you are included in a class action that has been started in British Columbia, one of the first questions you likely have is whether the lawsuit will proceed.

In Ontario, in order to be successful in a medical negligence action, a plaintiff must prove a number of elements...