Certified: Class Actions in Ontario & Beyond Suzanne Chiodo

Robert Sharpe, recently-retired justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, talks about his landmark judgment in Jones v Tsige, 2012 ONCA 32, which recognized the tort of intrusion upon seclusion. He discusses the evolution of privacy law in Ontario since that judgment, specifically in the context of class actions, and predicts what the future might hold.

Naomi Loewith & Pierre-Jerome Bouchard of Omni Bridgeway discuss third-party litigation funding in this second episode on the subject, which takes a deeper dive into the various models, the ethical issues involved, and the future of litigation funding in Canada.

Jeremy Martin talks about his class action practice at Cassels Brock, and gives a view of products liability and consumer cases from the defendant's perspective. Crisis management, damage control, and preventing a potential class action are all in a day's work.

Golnaz Nayerahmadi, partner at Rochon Genova, discusses the human rights class actions with which she has been involved. She has travelled the globe to meet with victims and witnesses, and contended with complex issues of jurisdiction, conflicts of law, international law, and corporate and Crown liability.

Katherine Kay, a partner at Stikemans, discusses the evolving jurisprudence in securities and competition law class actions. In a lively and forthright interview, she also considers the extent to which these class actions compensate class members and/or modify the behaviour of defendants.

Glenn Zakaib, national co-chair of the Class Actions Group at BLG, discusses the challenges inherent in multi-jurisdictional class actions and how courts, litigators and legislators have attempted to overcome them as class proceedings have spread across Canada.