Is it appropriate for a plaintiff to proceed in a class proceeding?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Monaco v. Coquitlam (City), 2015 BCSC 2421 (CanLII):
A class proceeding is not the preferable procedure if the common issues, to the extent they exist, are overwhelmed or subsumed by the individual issues: Rumley v. British Columbia, 2001 SCC 69 at para. 36, [2001] 3 S.C.R. 184; Thorburn BCCA at para. 25.
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