It now appears to be axiomatic that the three objectives of class actions in Canada are access to justice, judicial economy and behaviour modification. That these are the three primary objectives, often called the “pillars”, of class actions seems now to be beyond question. But what does this mean in practice?

As originally published in Butterworths' Class Action Defence Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2, December 2007.

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