What is the test for a lawyer representing a plaintiff in a class action?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fischer v. IG Investment Management Ltd., 2010 ONSC 7147 (CanLII):
Fair and reasonable compensation must be sufficient to provide a real economic incentive to lawyers to take on a class proceeding and to do it well: Smith v. National Money Mart, supra, at para. 23.
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