What are the requirements for a class action?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Good v. Toronto Police Services Board, 2013 ONSC 3026 (CanLII):
These requirements are linked: "There must be a cause of action, shared by an identifiable class, from which common issues arise that can be resolved in a fair, efficient and manageable way that will advance the proceeding and achieve access to justice, judicial economy and the modification of behaviour of wrongdoers." (Sauer v. Canada (Attorney General), [2008] O.J. No. 3419 at para. 14 (S.C.J.) (“Sauer”))
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