Sotos Class Actions

by Maria Arabella Robles In a trilogy of cases in 2022, the Ontario Court of Appeal reshaped the landscape for privacy and data breach class actions (the “Trilogy”).[1] Each of those three cases involved privacy class actions against defendants who collected and stored the personal information of putative class members in their databases following large-scale […]

By Karine Bédard, Misha Nili, and Mathieu Hergett-Rozier In recent years, there has been a rapid proliferation and maturation of AI-based image and video generation technologies.[1] Within the past 18 months in particular, major tech companies such as Google, OpenAI, Runway, and xAI have made concerted efforts to aggressively market and develop their own powerful […]

by Matthew W. Taylor Investors increasingly buy shares in companies that trade on the exchanges of multiple countries. Capital markets are global — Canadians wish to invest in foreign companies and foreign companies wish to raise capital from Canadians. When disclosure is incomplete or misleading, the legal response in Canada — unlike the U.S. — […]

by David Sterns What does a recent change to Canada’s competition law have to do with hockey? Potentially, quite a lot. As of June, amendments to the Competition Act allow private parties — including investors, municipalities, and even an organized group of hockey fans — to apply to bring an abuse-of-dominance case directly before the […]

(TORONTO – January 13, 2026): Consumers Council of Canada has filed an application for permission to sue Live Nation and Ticketmaster in the Canadian Competition Tribunal. The group seeks: to force Live Nation to divest itself of Ticketmaster; orders voiding terms in their contracts with artists, venues, and others; and substantial compensation for Canadian consumers, […]

OTTAWA | TORONTO — January 2, 2025 — The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa has applied to the Competition Tribunal to bring a case against Apple Canada Inc. and Apple Inc. CIPPIC alleges that Apple has abused its dominant position in the Canadian mobile app market, […]

At Sotos Class Actions, we receive many inquiries from members of the public who believe they’ve been wronged and are looking for accountability through a class action. We read every submission, and we’re grateful that people trust us enough to reach out. But the truth is, most of the cases we’re asked to take on […]

We are pleased to announce that Karine Bédard has joined our team as an associate. Karine is a litigator with extensive experience in complex litigation. Karine has been counsel on a wide range of class actions and multi-plaintiff actions involving the Charter, Crown liability, institutional abuse, and fiduciary duties before all levels of court in […]

Sotos is pleased to announce that Margaret Waddell, an exceptional litigator, has joined the firm as a partner. A trailblazer in class actions and a leader in complex civil litigation, Margaret brings her legacy of legal excellence and leadership to Sotos. She has over three decades of experience in successfully prosecuting and resolving class actions […]

We are proud to announce that Chambers Canada has once again ranked Sotos Class Actions for Dispute Resolution: Class Action (Plaintiff). We are also pleased to highlight the individual rankings of four of our partners – David Sterns, Louis Sokolov, Jean-Marc Leclerc, and Mohsen Seddigh – for their expertise in class action litigation. According to […]