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Lally, Michelle Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-5925 mlally@osler.com
Ms. Lally is a senior partner in the firm's Competition Law, Trade
and Foreign Investment Group and a former Chair of the National Competition
Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association. Her practice has a particular
emphasis on mergers & acquisitions, competitor collaborations
and antitrust investigations.
Kryworuk, Peter W. Lerners LLP
(519) 640-6317 pkryworuk@lerners.ca
Mr. Kryworuk has extensive trial and appellate experience in medical and
professional liability, class actions, commercial litigation as well as in
personal injury and insurance litigation. He is a certified specialist in civil
litigation and a Fellow of the ACTL.
Krüger, QC, Josef G. A. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
(403) 232-9563 jkruger@blg.com
Mr. Krüger is a partner and member of BLG's Commercial Litigation Group.
He has over 37 years of international experience in commercial litigation
and insolvency law. Mr. Krüger practises in the areas of bankruptcy and
insolvency, commercial litigation and international arbitration. He has been
involved in over 400 trials and arbitrations and has extensive experience
arguing matters on appeal.
Kolers, Eliot N. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5637 ekolers@stikeman.com
Mr. Kolers is head of the Toronto office's Litigation Group. His practice
concentrates on complex corporate commercial, competition, securities and
insurance litigation. He has defended class actions involving competition law,
securities and privacy issues. He has represented clients in many complex
cases, including "real time" litigation matters in relation to contested
corporate transactions.
Kimmel, Jessica A. Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-4219 jkimmel@goodmans.ca
Ms. Kimmel's extensive corporate/commercial litigation and arbitration
practice includes major securities, competition, professional liability, product
liability and restructuring matters, domestic and cross-border class actions
and regulatory matters. She is an ACTLFellow.
Kierans, Patrick E. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(416) 216-3904 patrick.kierans@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Kierans is an IP litigation lawyer based in Toronto, and the Global Co-
Head of Life Sciences and Healthcare for Norton Rose Fulbright. His clients
include pharmaceutical and technology companies.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
Manitoba allowed private abortion clinics to re-
ceive provincial funding.)
In achieving certification for their initial 2001
suit, the representative plaintiffs also won the right
to remain unnamed, which is permitted under the
class action notification rules in Manitoba, unlike
in the rest of the country (with a few exceptions).
at consideration was extended to them once
again in the 2008 action.
"In the circumstances of this case, I find that
the failure to identify the two plaintiffs is not im-
portant because the court has approved the use of
pseudonyms by the plaintiffs, their identities are
known to the Government, and they have been
examined by counsel for the Government," Justice
Schulman wrote in allowing the class action to
proceed to the certification stage.
e overwhelming norm in Canadian class ac-
tion lawsuits is that representative plaintiffs must
be identified by name and address, says Monique
Jilesen, a partner in the Toronto office of Lenczner
Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP. e practice of
identifying representative plaintiffs emerges out of
"THIS IS A HOT ISSUE.
THIS IS AN EMERGING
ISSUE THAT COINCIDES
WITH THE RISE OF WHAT
I CALL PRIVACY AND
DATA-BREACH CLASS ACTION
SUITS. IT HIGHLIGHTS A
TENSION IN THE STRUCTURE
OF OUR CLASS ACTION
PROCEEDINGS LEGISLATION.
… ULTIMATELY, THE COURTS
ARE GOING TO HAVE
TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUE."
Christopher Naudie;
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
