Class Proceedings Changes in Force Today

Significant changes to Ontario’s Class Proceedings Act, 1992 take effect today, October 1, 2020.

Significant changes to Ontario’s Class Proceedings Act, 1992 take effect today, October 1, 2020.

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Class Action Reform in Ontario

The Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) released its long-awaited report, Class Actions: Objectives, Experiences and Reforms last Wednesday.

The report is the work of the LCO’s Class Actions Project which was launched back in October 2017, with a mandate “to research class actions in Ontario and to conduct an independent, evidence-based, and practical analysis of class actions from the perspective of their three objectives: access to justice, judicial economy, and deterrence”.  The project represents the first comprehensive review of the province’s Class Proceedings Act, 1992.

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