Since the release of the Class Actions Final Report on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, various media outlets have discussed the report further and interviewed LCO staff and Principal Researcher Professor Jasminka Kalajdzic. See below to read the various articles:
- The Lawyer’s Daily – LCO makes 47 recommendations to reform Class Proceedings Act
- CTV News – New report says major reforms of Ontario’s class action law are needed
- Toronto Star – Major reforms of Ontario’s class action law needed, new report says
- Blakes: Business Class – Law Commission of Ontario Recommends Broad Reforms for Class Actions
- Law Times – Ontario should switch to no-cost class actions, law commission says
- Law Times – ‘Insurmountable’ access to justice issues could come from Ontario’s Crown immunity change
- Osler – “Controversial” changes to Ontario class actions law recommended by Commission
- Borden Ladner Gervais – Law Commission of Ontario Report on Class Actions – Key Recommendations
- Fasken – A Possible Blueprint for Class Actions Law Reform in Ontario
- Law Times – MAG says Crown liability changes defend taxpayers from ‘deep-pocketed lawyers’
- Goodmans LLP – Law Commission of Ontario Recommends Significant Overhaul of Ontario Class Actions Regime
- Gowling WLG – The Final Report: LCO Recommendations for Class Actions in Ontario
- McCarthy Tetrault LLP – Law Commission of Ontario issues recommendations for Class Action reform in Ontario
- Bennet Jones – What the Law Commission of Ontario’s New Report on Class Actions Could Mean for Litigants
- Affleck Greene McMurty LLP – Key Recommendations From the Law Commission of Ontario Report on Class Actions
- Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP – The LCO’s Class Actions Final Report: The Defence Perspective
- Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP – LCO recommendations point to meaningful change in class actions
- Torys LLP – The Law Commission of Ontario’s final report on class proceedings in the province of Ontario
- CBC News – Major reforms of Ontario’s class-action law needed, new report says
- Siskinds – Speeding up Certification by Extending Filing Deadlines?
- Lexpert – Class Actions at a Crossroads
- Law Times – 2019 shook up everything from tribunals to the MAG
- The Lawyer’s Daily: Amicus curiae appointments in class actions
- Torys LLP: Game Changer? Ontario Introduces Significant Amendments To The Class Proceedings Act
- Borden Ladner Gervais: Ontario Announces Significant Proposed Changes To The Class Proceedings Act, 1992
- Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP: Bill 161: Much Needed Modernization For Class Actions In Ontario
- McCarthy Tetrault LLP: Ontario’s Attorney General proposes significant changes to the Class Proceedings Act
- The Lawyer’s Daily: Downey stresses modernization in unveiling reforms to legal aid, law society legislation