Sotos Class Actions

CBC Indigenous has reported on the growing legal battles across Canada concerning Indigenous children who were taken into child welfare while living off reserve, including ongoing litigation in Ontario represented by Sotos Class Actions. The October 2, 2026 article, “Legal battles mount over the off-reserve Millennium Scoop,” examines the differing approaches courts have taken to […]

Sotos Class Actions has been ranked Band 1 nationwide for Dispute Resolution: Class Action (Plaintiff) in the 2027 edition of Chambers Canada. The guide also ranked five Sotos Class Action lawyers individually, including three in Band 1: David Sterns, Band 1 Louis Sokolov, Band 1 Margaret Waddell, Band 1 Jean-Marc Leclerc, Band 2 Mohsen Seddigh, […]

Canadian class action litigation continues to evolve, with increasing filing activity, emerging claims involving artificial intelligence, changes to competition law and ongoing challenges surrounding national proceedings and litigation financing. Sotos partner David Sterns recently shared his perspective on these developments with Commercial Dispute Resolution for its article, “Change and challenge in Canadian class actions.” Class […]

Sotos Class Actions continues to be recognized for the depth of its plaintiff class actions team, with seven lawyers named for Class Action Litigation in the 2027 editions of The Best Lawyers in Canada and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada. Partners Jean-Marc Leclerc, Louis Sokolov, David Sterns and Margaret Waddell are recognized in […]

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, […]