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At the CBA Annual Meeting on February 15, 2018, a resolution to approve, as best practices, a revised Canadian Judicial Protocol for the Management of Multi-Jurisdictional Class Actions was approved. The resolution also urges Canadian courts that administer class actions to adopt the revised Canadian Judicial Protocol (Revised Protocol).
The Revised Protocol builds on the existing CBA protocol providing for the creation of a Notification List of all counsel involved in class actions involving the same or similar subject matter, and the approval and administration of settlements through Multi-jurisdictional Class Settlement Approval Orders.
The Revised Protocol establishes best practices by which multi-jurisdictional class actions may be coordinated among courts in circumstances that do not involve settlements. It includes the following:
The Revised Protocol is the product of a reconstituted CBA National Class Actions Task Force composed of lawyers with expertise in class actions drawn from both the plaintiff and defence bar, and members of the judiciary from five provinces.
This represents yet another step in the CBA’s efforts to facilitate the co-ordination of overlapping class actions in different jurisdictions, in the absence of a constitutional framework that would permit the creation of an equivalent to the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
More information can be found at: http://www.cba.org/getattachment/Our-Work/Resolutions/Resolutions/2018/Class-Action-Judicial-Protocols-(1)/18-03-A.pdf
The author was a member of the CBA National Class Actions Task Force 2016-2017.
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