What is the definition of a class and what is the purpose of the class definition?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Tiboni v. Merck Frosst Canada Ltd., 2008 CanLII 37911 (ON SC):
In Bywater v. Toronto Transit Commission, [1998] O.J. No. 4913 (G.D.) at para 10, the three purposes of a class definition were described as: (a) to identify the persons who have a potential claim for relief against the defendants; (b) to define the parameters of the law suit so as to identify those persons who are bound by its result; and (c) to describe who is entitled to notice pursuant to the Act.
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