Index

• Author: Suzanne Chiodo
• Pages: 261-273

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INDEX

Abbott, Anthony C, 56, 56n52

Absent class members. See Class mem-

bers, absent

Access to Justice Conference, 101, 104, 173

Activist judges, Charter and, 69–70,

171–72, 173

Adverse costs awards, 191, 192–94,

199–200, 204

increase in, 196–97

representative plaintif‌f, to, 191

Advocates’ Society, 78–79, 99n63, 105,

107, 111, 123, 125, 138, 148, 162n439

opposition to no-way costs, 94

percentage contingency fees, 140

report on OLRC, 86, 87

Aggregate damages, 32

business opposed to, 71

OLRC draft legislation, 74, 76

Quebec, 42

Air India bombing, 140

Alberta, opt-out classes permitted, 226–27

Alboim, Naomi, 123

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co v Wilderness

Society (US), 26

An Act Respecting the Class Action (Que),

34n113, 40–41

amended, 1982, 43

reluctance of courts, 42–44

Anderson, Robert, 106, 138

Andrew, Judith, 106, 107n102

Arnup, JA, 31

Attorney General (Ont), special role in

class action suits, 73–74, 77, 78, 107,

119, 124–25

Attorney General’s Advisory Committee

(AGAC), 112–28

consensus required, 125

consensus and government funding,

136

costs, 132–41

compromise on, 132–33

consensus on, 137–38

heated discussion re, 135–36

public funding of, 134, 135, 136

December 1989 meeting, 137

drafting legislation, 141–51

Advisory Committee’s unusual

role in, 144–51

Cochrane attempts to control, 144

consensus helped passage of,

142–43

control of wording, 147

dif‌fered from Cabinet minute on

costs, 143

other examples of advisory com-

mittees drafting, 145n332

f‌irst meeting, 128, 130

f‌laws in process of, 183–86

funding, concerns about, 138–39

January 26, 1990 meeting, 139–41