LAW 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Class Action, Punitive Damages, Telectronics
5 Sep 2014
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Class actions now can be used with regulatory law. Law 525 lecture 9: a civil lawsuit brought by one or more persons on behalf of a larger group of similarly situated persons (the class members) It seeks to have common or similar claims resolved in a single proceeding with the result binding on all class members and opposing parties. Critisims of class actions: class actions are often expensive to undertake and provide very little compensation to individual class members while generating relatively large fees for lawyers. Illegal to prohibit a consumer to take part in class act: ocpa can engage in a class action even if you signed away right, different than. Cpa: between consumer and business relationship, business protected from business through a franchising legislation (small business ppl need help against) Certification common issues: defined in cpa (s. 1) as common but not necessarily identical issues of fact or.
