Publications
Class Actions, Consultation Memorandum 9
This report makes recommendations to reform the existing procedure for handling a class action and proposes that Alberta enact a modern class actions statute based on the Canadian model that has been enacted in Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia. Primary recommendations would add a procedure to the existing procedural framework for handling litigation involving multiple plaintiffs having the same or similar claims against the same defendant. Ancillary recommendations would add a procedure for handling litigation […]
December 4, 2000
Class Actions, Final Report 85
This report makes recommendations to reform the existing procedure for handling a class action and proposes that Alberta enact a modern class actions statute based on the Canadian model that has been enacted in Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia. Primary recommendations would add a procedure to the existing procedural framework for handling litigation involving multiple plaintiffs having the same or similar claims against the same defendant. Ancillary recommendations would add a procedure for handling litigation […]
| AREA OF LAW | Administration of Justice Corporate and Commercial Court Rules & Procedure Courts Procedure |
| TAGS | sue, litigation, case management, class action, Court, damages, injury, plaintiff, procedure, public interest, selection |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | fr085.pdf |
December 1, 2000
Last Clear Chance Rule, Final Report 75
This report recommends that the Contributory Negligence Act (CNA) be amended to abolish the common-law rule known as the “last clear chance” rule. The “last clear chance” rule applied where both the contributory negligence of a plaintiff and the fault of a defendant caused loss to the plaintiff and where one of the them had a “last clear chance” to avoid the effect of the other’s fault and failed to do so. If the defendant was the […]
| AREA OF LAW | Constitutional and Public Law |
| TAGS | defendant, fault, last clear chance, contributory negligence, negligence, plaintiff |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | fr075.pdf |
August 29, 1997