What is the impact of the common issues at the heart of litigation?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from MacLean et al. v. Telus Corporation and Telus Communications Inc., 2006 BCSC 766 (CanLII):
Where the common issues are at “the heart of the litigation”, concerns about the relative weight of individual issues are much less troubling: Scott v. TD Waterhouse (2001), 94 B.C.L.R. (3d) 320, 2001 BCSC 1299 at ¶117, 120–122, 130–137.
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