Overview

AuthorSuzanne Chiodo
Pages1-14
Chapter
i
OVERVIEW
A.
INTRODUCTION
On
24
June
1982,
Attorney
General
Roy
McMurtry
announced
to
the
Ontario
legislature
1
that
the
Ontario
Law
Reform
Commission
had
com
pleted
its
Report
on
Class
Actions.
2
The
result
of
six
years
of
deliberation
and
running
to
nearly
900
pages,
the
OLRC
Report
was
widely
hailed
as
one
of
the
most
comprehensive
treatments
of
the
subject,
covering
almost
every
aspect
of
class
actions
in
exhaustive
detail.
It
was
accompanied
by
draft
legislation
and
had
been
especially
commissioned
by
the
attorney
general,
with
McMurtry
stating
the
following
year
that
he
regarded
class
action
reform
as
a
high
priority.
1
would
expect
to
be
discussing
these
issues
...
with
my
cabinet
colleagues
in
the
early
autumn,
with
a
view
to
possibly
bringing
first
reading
legislation
before
the
House
by
the
end
of
the
year.
3
1
Ontario,
Legislative
Assembly,
Official
Report
of
Debates
(Hansard),
32nd
Pari,
2nd
Sess
(24
June
1982)
(Roy
McMurtry),
online:
http://hansardindex.ontla.on.ca/
hansardeissue/32-2/lo87-htm.
2
Ontario
Law
Reform
Commission,
Report
on
Class
Actions
(Toronto:
Ministry
of
the
Attorney
General,
1982)
[OLRC
Report].
3
Ontario,
Legislative
Assembly,
Official
Report
of
Debates
(1
lansard),
32nd
Pari,
3rd
Sess
(17
June
1983)
(Standing
Committee
on
Administration
of
Justice,
Estimates,
Ministry
of
the
Attorney
General),
J-173,
Ontario
Law
Reform
Commission
files,
Nov
1976-Dec
1982,
Project
name:
class
actions,
RG
4-66,
BA77,
Box
No
B380537,
North
York,
Archives
of
Ontario.
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