In what circumstances will a court refuse to accept common issues?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Koo and Gingras v. Canadian Airlines International Ltd., 2000 BCSC 281 (CanLII):
In Harrington v. Dow Corning, supra at 109, Mr. Justice Mackenzie considered whether the proposed common issues were capable of "a simple comprehensive answer" and refused all but one of 20 proposed common issues on the basis that "[t]he answer to each of the questions may be of significance to some members of the class but not all."
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