Leave to the Supreme Court Denied: Latest on Pre-Certification Stays in Multijurisdictional Class Actions
By EsqSocial Corporation 26/05/21
We previously discussed the Alberta Court of Appeal's decision in Ravvin v Canada Bread Company, Limited, 2020 ABCA 424, which arose out of an alleged packaged bread price-fixing conspiracy. Plaintiffs started class proceedings in multiple provinces but stays were granted in most actions in favour of a national class proceeding before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The defendants similarly moved to stay the two proposed class proceedings in Alberta on the basis that they overlapped with...
By: Bennett Jones LLP