What is the definition of a class and what is the effect of the class definition?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Papassay v The Queen (Ontario), 2017 ONSC 2023 (CanLII):
In a case that predates Western Canadian Shopping Centres, Bywater v. Toronto Transit Commission, [1998] O.J. No. 4913 at para. 10, Mr. Justice Winkler explained that the class definition identifies the parameters of the lawsuit.
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