The Canadian Class Action Review: Volume 7, Issue 1, October 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 INTRODUCTION

Harvey Strosberg, QC

A HISTORY OF CLASS ACTIONS: MODERN LESSONS FROM DEEP ROOTS

Michael A Eizenga and Emrys Davis

CLASS REUNION: REVISITING CLASS ACTION JUSTIFICATION AFTER TWENTY YEARS

Brian Smith

THE USE OF MATRIX SETTLEMENTS IN CANADIAN CLASS ACTIONS

Sara J Erskine

PALPABLE AND OVERRIDING CONFUSION: APPELLATE REVIEW OF CERTIFICATION ORDERS IN CANADA

Shea Coulson

WHITHER COMMON LAW CLAIMS FOR SECONDARY MARKET MISREPRESENTATION?: AN ANALYIS OF CERTIFICATION DECISIONS IN McCANN v CP SHIPS, SILVER v IMAX, McKENNA v GAMMON GOLD, AND DOBBIE v ARCTIC GLACIER

Andrea Laing and Robert Carson

CONSEQUENCES OF THE COURTS’ MORE LIBERAL APPROACH TO THE ADMISSION OF RELEVANT EVIDENCE AT THE AUTHORIZATION STAGE

Marianne Ignacz and Anne-Louise Lamarre 

WAIVER OF TORT: A POTENTIAL SEA CHANGE IN CLASS ACTION LAW

Kit Scotchmer