By Margaret L. Waddell, Phillips Gill LLP   Whether an auditor owes a duty of care to the lenders of a company it audits remains an open question after the Ontario ... Read more

After concluding that both the motion judge and the majority of the Divisional Court erred, the Ontario Court of Appeal (OCA) has certified a class-action lawsuit against an ... Read more

A recent decision by a British Columbia court to question fees already paid to a court-appointed monitor is unusual, as judges are normally reluctant to overly scrutinize the ... Read more

By Brian Radnoff In  Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v. Green, 2015 SCC 60  ( Green ), the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled on the limitation periods for ... Read more

Corporations can take some comfort from the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision on investor class action lawsuits that the protections built into the Securities ... Read more

When class-action parties fail to reach an agreement on a litigation plan for the prosecution of the individual issues in a class proceeding, the court has the ... Read more

On Dec. 9 , 2015, Toronto class-action lawyer  Margaret Waddell , partner at  Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP , will co-chair The Advocates’ ... Read more

Toronto class-action lawyer  Margaret Waddell  will be part of the expert speaker faculty at the upcoming 7th Annual Class Actions Colloquium, presented by the ... Read more

An Ontario judge’s recent move to end a dispute over who will represent plaintiffs in a class action against a pharmaceutical company is a “rare” ruling that ... Read more

News that Ashley Madison is facing a national class-action lawsuit in Canada — and at least four others in the United States — highlights that businesses that operate ... Read more

By Brian Radnoff , Rebecca Shoom (Student-at-law) In a somewhat anticlimactic follow-up to  Nordheimer J.’s decision granting leave to appeal , the Divisional Court ... Read more

Although a recent ruling that upheld an earlier decision in a carriage dispute between law firms in the Barrick Gold Corp. class action does provide some clarity on the issue, ... Read more

Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell  was barely into junior high school when friends and family started telling her she should consider becoming a lawyer. At the ... Read more

Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell has been recognized in the Chambers Global 2015 guide for her expertise in commercial class actions. In the category of Canada, ... Read more

Toronto class-action lawyer  Margaret Waddell  will share her thoughts on legal ethics in the context of class proceedings and contingent fees at the Canadian Bar ... Read more

Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell  has been recognized in the 2014  Lexpert Guide to the Leading Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada .  ... Read more

The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision not to certify a class-action lawsuit – launched by Cape Breton residents who claim the Sydney tar ponds exposed them ... Read more

Toronto class action lawyer  Brian Radnoff says the trend of experienced class action law firms teaming up on claims makes appellate guidance on carriage battles all the ... Read more

Toronto class-action lawyer  Margaret Waddell  will moderate the Law Society of Upper Canada’s program on Issue Identification and Analysis for Junior Lawyers on ... Read more

Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell will speak at the Ontario Bar Association's 6th Annual Class Actions Colloquium . The all-day event will be held Dec. 1 ... Read more