James Newland

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Representative plaintiffs can be protected from liability

When it comes to civil litigation, Ontario and other provinces have a “loser pays” rule. That means that the party who succeeds in court will typically have a portion of their legal costs paid by the opposing side. This may be daunting to some prospective representative plaintiffs in class actions. However, there are a number […]

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Gluckstein Lawyers lawsuit targets Hamilton cancer centre

By Tony Poland, LegalMatters Staff • The class-actions and mass torts team at Gluckstein Lawyers is representing 12 female cervical cancer patients suing Juravinski Cancer Centre (JCC), Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) over an equipment error which resulted in erroneously targeted cervical cancer radiation treatment. “It is a sad case,” says senior counsel James Newland, who along with

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