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Jolliffe, R. Scott Gowling WLG
(416) 862-5400 scott.jolliffe@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Jolliffe is one of Canada's pre-eminent trial and appellate lawyers in
the intellectual property field. His areas of specialization include patent,
trademark, copyright and trade secret litigation.
Jilesen, Monique Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP
(416) 865-2926 mjilesen@litigate.com
Ms. Jilesen acts as lead counsel in highly complex proceedings and her
extensive litigation practice includes class actions, contract and shareholder
disputes, civil fraud cases, injunctions, bankruptcy and insolvency matters,
and securities and derivatives cases. She has an enviable record of success
at trial in bet-the-company disputes. She is a Fellow of the International
Academy of Trial Lawyers.
Jamal, Mahmud Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-6764 mjamal@osler.com
Mr. Jamal's national litigation practice includes the defence of class actions,
banking litigation, constitutional and administrative law, competition/
antitrust, pension, tax, copyright and other regulatory litigation. He has
argued a wide range of cases before the Supreme Court of Canada and trials
and appeals in several provinces.
Iatrou, Nikiforos WeirFoulds LLP
(416) 947-5072 niatrou@weirfoulds.com
Prominent antitrust litigator with track record of successfully arguing
precedent-setting competition law cases before Canada's Competition
Tribunal and Federal Court of Appeal. Former counsel to Competition Bureau
(2009–2012), where he acted as lead counsel on dozens of high-priority
Bureau cases, including as lead counsel on the first contested merger
since 2006.
Hutton, Susan M. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(613) 566-0530 shutton@stikeman.com
Ms. Hutton is a partner in the Competition & Foreign Investment and
International Trade Groups. She provides Competition Act and Investment
Canada Act advice in respect of numerous complex mergers and acquisitions.
She is a member of the Competition Policy Council of the C.D. Howe Institute,
and is past Chair of the Competition Law Section of the CBA.
Hunter, QC, Lawson A.W. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(613) 566-0527 lhunter@stikeman.com
Mr. Hunter is one of Canada's renowned regulatory and government relations
counsel. He was a senior civil servant in charge of competition policy,
primarily responsible for drafting the federal Competition Act. He advises
Canadian and multinational companies on federal regulatory law and policy,
including competition, foreign investment legislation, international trade
and telecommunications.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
CLASS REPRESENTATION
The Anonymous
Representative
In nearly every conceivable circumstance, courts
demand plaintiffs disclose their identities if not
publicly then at least to the defendant — but this
is not always the case. e permissibility of anony-
mous representation in class actions has evolved
over the past decade.
One of these rare instances of anonymity oc-
curred in 2008, when the Court of Queen's Bench
of Manitoba gave permission to Jane Doe 1 and
Jane Doe 2 to initiate a class action against the gov-
THE OPEN-COURT
PRINCIPLE REQUIRES
ACCUSERS TO IDENTIFY
THEMSELVES, BUT NEW
ISSUES IN DATA PRIVACY
AND HEALTH CARE
ARE CHALLENGING THE
COURTS TO CONSIDER
BROADENING THE
USE OF ANONYMITY
IN CLASS ACTIONS
By Paul McLaughlin
