Kett v. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
| Jurisdiction | British Columbia |
| Court | Supreme Court of British Columbia (Canada) |
| Judge | Honourable Mr. Justice Branch |
| Neutral Citation | 2020 BCSC 1879 |
| Citation | 2020 BCSC 1879 |
| Docket Number | S1813758 |
| Date | 01 December 2020 |
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9 practice notes
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NEVSUN, ATLANTIC LOTTERY, AND THE IMPLICATIONS OR THE 2020 SUPREME COURT OF CANADA MOTION TO STRIKE DECISIONS ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW.
...744. (128) See La Rose v Canada, 2020 FC 1008, 2020 CarswellNat 4510 [La Rose]. (129) See Kelt v Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1879, 2020 CarswellBC 3078; Wakeling v Desjardins General Insurance Group Inc, 2020 ONSC 6809, 2020 CarswellOnt 16986 (130) See Autorite des marches f......
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Drynan v. Bausch Health Companies Inc.
...because of “the risk of the proceeding collapsing under its own weight” (citing Kett v. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1879, at para. 196). The defendants submit that “[t]he meaning of COLD-FX® advertising, and therefore the alleged misrepresentations,......
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K.O. v. British Columbia (Ministry of Health)
...will fragment inevitably into an enormous multiplicity of individual claims: see, on this subject, Kett v. Mitsubishi Materials Corp., 2020 BCSC 1879 especially at paras. 170-185, 190-193. Separate actions are preferable. The remaining factor to be considered under this heading, namely......
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Trotman v. WestJet Airlines Ltd.
...pleadings and emphasizes the gate-keeping role of the certification judge at this stage: see Kett v. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1879 at paras. 54, 58–59 [Kett], citing Atlantic Lottery Corp. Inc. v. Babstock, 2020 SCC 19 [Atlantic Lottery] and Hryniak v. Mauldin......
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5 cases
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Drynan v. Bausch Health Companies Inc.
...because of “the risk of the proceeding collapsing under its own weight” (citing Kett v. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1879, at para. 196). The defendants submit that “[t]he meaning of COLD-FX® advertising, and therefore the alleged misrepresentations,......
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K.O. v. British Columbia (Ministry of Health)
...will fragment inevitably into an enormous multiplicity of individual claims: see, on this subject, Kett v. Mitsubishi Materials Corp., 2020 BCSC 1879 especially at paras. 170-185, 190-193. Separate actions are preferable. The remaining factor to be considered under this heading, namely......
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Trotman v. WestJet Airlines Ltd.
...pleadings and emphasizes the gate-keeping role of the certification judge at this stage: see Kett v. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1879 at paras. 54, 58–59 [Kett], citing Atlantic Lottery Corp. Inc. v. Babstock, 2020 SCC 19 [Atlantic Lottery] and Hryniak v. Mauldin......
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Spencer v. Transat A.T. Inc.
...[Pro-Sys]. Justice Branch reiterated the importance of the courts’ gatekeeping role in Kett v. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1879 at para. 54, quoting Thorburn v. British Columbia, 2012 BCSC 1585 at The goal of the CPA is to be fair to both plaintiffs and defe......
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3 firm's commentaries
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Product Liability And Class Actions
...Cook (Canada) Inc., 2020 ONSC 128 (Div Ct) 2. Williamson v Johnson & Johnson, 2020 BCSC 1746. 3. Kett v Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1879 at para 159; Pro-Sys Consultants Ltd. v Microsoft Corporation, 2013 SCC 57. 4. 2020 ONSC 5462 ("Maginnis") 5. 2020 QCCS 4270 About BLG The......
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Proposed Class Action Found To Be "Too Big To Certify"
...is a limit to what can be advanced as a class proceeding in the Court. See the decision here: https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/20/18/2020BCSC1879.htm Footnotes 1. Kett v. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1897 2. Class Proceedings Act, RSBC 1996, c 50 [CPA] 3. Kett at para 193. ......
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"Too Big To Certify"
...v. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1879, Justice Branch dismissed a certification application because the case was "too big to certify". The case confirms that there are limits to the scale of class actions-while plaintiffs may create the appearance of commonality through abstra......
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NEVSUN, ATLANTIC LOTTERY, AND THE IMPLICATIONS OR THE 2020 SUPREME COURT OF CANADA MOTION TO STRIKE DECISIONS ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW.
...744. (128) See La Rose v Canada, 2020 FC 1008, 2020 CarswellNat 4510 [La Rose]. (129) See Kelt v Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1879, 2020 CarswellBC 3078; Wakeling v Desjardins General Insurance Group Inc, 2020 ONSC 6809, 2020 CarswellOnt 16986 (130) See Autorite des marches f......