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==How do you start a class action?== | ==How do you start a class action?== | ||
Under BC law, a person who has been hurt or suffered loss can apply to the BC Supreme Court to be the representative plaintiff in a lawsuit for a group of people. These people also have to ask the court to certify the lawsuit as a class proceeding. The lawyer for the representative plaintiff becomes the lawyer for all the class members. A defendant | Under BC law, a person who has been hurt or suffered loss can apply to the BC Supreme Court to be the representative plaintiff in a lawsuit for a group of people. These people also have to ask the court to certify the lawsuit as a class proceeding. The lawyer for the representative plaintiff becomes the lawyer for all the class members. A defendant in two or more proceedings may also ask the court to convert those into a class proceeding. | ||
Almost all class actions that are certified are eventually settled. If a court doesn’t certify a class action, the members of the group can usually sue individually, as if the class action had never started. | Almost all class actions that are certified are eventually settled. If a court doesn’t certify a class action, the members of the group can usually sue individually, as if the class action had never started. | ||
