Class Actions
Commercial LitigationCases
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Counsel to Walmart Canada in defending a proposed national class action in Alberta involving allegations of failure to detect and prevent unusual orders of opioids.
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Counsel to Walmart in successfully defending pharmaceutical product liability class actions in Ontario and British Columbia relating to the manufacturing, supply, and sale of Zantac Ranitidine, resulting in the actions being dismissed.
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Counsel for Société Générale, the French bank, in connection with a putative class action pending in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice relating to allegations of conspiracy and price fixing in connection with the global gold instruments and gold money market claims.
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Counsel to an automotive parts manufacturer in proposed class actions in British Columbia and Ontario relating to allegedly defective airbag control units. Successfully defeated class certification which took place in British Columbia.
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Counsel to Flo-Health in Ontario and British Columbia class actions alleging improper disclosure of customer information. The actions plead privacy and consumer protection claims.
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Counsel to IBM Canada in a proposed class action relating to the implementation of the Phoenix pay system.
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Counsel to a defendant physician in a class action brought by patients who allege that the physician used a substance not approved by Health Canada in cosmetic procedures. This is the first time a certified class action has been dismissed for delay in Ontario and is now the leading decision on the dismissal for delay test.
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Co-counsel to plaintiff in a certified Canadian class action against Daimler AG and Canadian and U.S. subsidiaries in relation to emissions technology. The parties have recently reached a settlement, which the Court approved.
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Counsel to the Canadian Wheat Board in successfully defending a proposed class proceeding brought by former grain producers in the Federal Court and the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench, arising from the farmers’ relationship with the Board. The Manitoba Court of King’s Bench granted summary judgment in favour of our client and dismissed the class action in its entirety. The Court found that the farmers’ relationship with the Canadian Wheat Board was purely statutory, not contractual, and that in any event the Board had acted in accordance with the Canada Wheat Board Act.
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Counsel to Vault Home Credit Corporation, a consumer financing company, in defending a proposed national class action alleging breaches of consumer protection legislation.
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