BLAW 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Paralegal, Class Action, Counterclaim
Document Summary
The litigation process litigation is the system of resolving disputes in court. As a general rule, all adults are free to use the canadian courts, whether or not they are canadian citizens. Minors or adults with a mental disability can be sued or sue only through a court-appointed representative. Corporations are legal persons and therefore can sue or be sued. Unincorporated associations, with the exception of trade unions, cannot sue or be sued, but their individual members can. King can do no wrong, which means governments cannot be sued unless a statutory authority permits it. Class action suits are also allowed, where a single person or a small group of people sues on behalf of a larger group of claimants. Class action claims are becoming increasingly prevalent in areas like product liability, mass torts (e. g. , contaminated water supply), gender discrimination in the workplace, banking (e. g. , improper service charges), business law (e. g. , price fixing), and securities law.
