What are the benefits of a class action?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lewis v WestJet Airlines Ltd., 2021 BCSC 228 (CanLII):
A class action has three principal advantages over the pursuit of individual claims through a multiplicity of suits. First, class actions serve judicial economy by avoiding unnecessary duplication in fact-finding and legal analysis. Second, class actions promote access to justice by making economical the prosecution of claims that would be prohibitively costly for any individual class member. Third, class actions ensure that actual and potential wrongdoers modify their behaviour to take full account of the harm they have caused, or may cause, to the public: Hollick v. Toronto (City), 2001 SCC 68 at para. 15 [Hollick].
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