Abstract
The article is dedicated to class actions and class litigation in Canada. Initially evolved from legislative sources of England and the USA, class litigation in Canada has received independent and original development. The profound reform in Ontario that took place in July 2020 made significant amendments to Class Proceedings Act, 1992, which reflect the latest achievements in the field of class litigation. The latest changes in this Act are analysed in the article. Moreover, the following questions are raised: certification and authorisation as class proceedings, necessary to confirm the group for class action, its multiplicity, necessary to form the class action, questions of preferability of group procedure (predominance and superiority) and native language in class litigation. Special point of research is question of costs in class litigation, which has peculiar features in Canadian class action law. They consist in refusal to compensate the judicial costs or in compensation by third-party investor company or by the state (state funds). These approaches offer a fresh look at the problem of compensation of judicial costs in class litigation. The experience of Canada can be used in certain boundaries in Russia.
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