A court has provided a helpful primer to lawyers to determine when evidence submitted as part of a motion or application must be made an exhibit to an affidavit, says Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell. “This decision provides a really good breakdown of what the law is and how people should be applying it,” says Waddell, […]
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A new protocol for the case management of multi-jurisdictional class actions, adopted by the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), will likely lead to less overlap and fewer conflicting decisions from province to province, Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell tells Law Times. “Rather than the judges working blind in each jurisdiction without really knowing what’s going on in other jurisdictions,
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A recent Ontario Court of Appeal (OCA) decision settled the issue of whether a judge’s order on a third-party funding agreement is final or interlocutory, says Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell. “We now have clarity in an area where previously there was no jurisprudence on this particular point, and direction from the court on how to
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Three recent decisions — one each from Quebec, Saskatchewan and Ontario — provide guidance about when one court may defer to another in competing class proceedings, Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell writes in The Lawyer’s Daily. “The predominant concern expressed in each case is that the interests of the class members resident in one province will be adequately
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Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell of Waddell Phillips Professional Corporation and Landy Marr Kats LLP have launched a proposed $800-million class-action lawsuit against those alleged to be involved in a “sham” charitable donation scheme, says the National Post. The announcement, made via Canada Newswire, says the proposed lawsuit is against individuals and entities involved in the development, structuring, creation, promotion
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The plaintiffs involved in a proposed class action that alleges negligence manufacture and a failure to warn of defective implantable cardiac defibrillators will request leave to appeal a recent court decision that denied approval of a third-party funding agreement, says their co-counsel, Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell. “We’re disappointed with the result and we’re going to
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A class-action lawsuit against a prominent ballet school and a former teacher, who is alleged to have taken intimate photos of students and offered them for sale online, has been launched on behalf of former students by Toronto lawyer Margaret Waddell a class-action lawyer and principal of Waddell Phillips Professional Corporation. A statement of claim was filed in April in the Ontario
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Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell has opted to hang out her own shingle with the new firm, Waddell Phillips Professional Corporation,which will focus on cases with a strong human rights element, in addition to consumer protection, product liability and securities class actions. “One of the types of litigation cases we are excited to take on is
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By Margaret L. Waddell • Whether an auditor owes a duty of care to the lenders of a company it audits remains an open question after the Ontario Court of Appeal (OCA) overturned the summary judgment decision of Justice Paul M. Perell in CIBC v. Deloitte & Touche, 2016 ONCA 922. On the summary judgment motion, Justice
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After concluding that both the motion judge and the majority of the Divisional Court erred, the Ontario Court of Appeal (OCA) has certified a class-action lawsuit against an accounting firm that involves international investors who lost money in an investment in a Chinese livestock company, says Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell. Waddell acted as counsel to
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