If you experienced sexual harassment, sexual assault or discrimination based on your sex, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation while serving in the Canadian Armed Forces or while employed for the Department of National Defence or for the Staff of the Non-Public Funds, Canadian Forces, you may be eligible for a compensation from this class action settlement. The changes undertaken reflect the seriousness with which the company takes these issues. Affected class members have been notified.Įpiq Canada has implemented new procedures to ensure this does not happen again and has taken the appropriate disciplinary action.Įpiq Canada deeply regrets these circumstances, which do not reflect its proven track record of service and extends its apologies to the parties in the case and affected class members. At no point did Epiq Canada disclose information to anyone outside of the class. The vast majority of the information involved included name, email address, and/or claimant ID mistakenly sent to another claimant. Epiq Canada took immediate action to restrict access to the information, initiate an extensive investigation, and implement appropriate disciplinary measures.Įpiq Canada has confirmed that information was inadvertently disclosed for a total of 109 claimants. (“Epiq Canada”) learned in early 2022 that a limited amount of data related to the CAF-DND Sexual Misconduct Class Action Settlement was inadvertently disclosed. 224īC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Territories Acheson Sweeney Foley Sahota LLP 25Įpiq Class Action Services Canada Inc. Ontario Koskie Minsky LLP (Toronto) Email: 1 (888) 502-7455 Class counsel are preparing additional materials to help class members with this process, and are available to answer any questions you may have. Please contact class counsel in your region as soon as possible if you have questions about how to make a late claim request. If you already provided an explanation for why your claim was late when you submitted it, you may want to update that explanation to show how you satisfy the test set out above. In order for us as the Administrator to consider whether to accept your late claim, you must provide reasons to us setting out how you believe you meet the above test. Please note that since the deadline falls on a Sunday (February 5, 2023), requests to file late claims will be accepted until Februat 11:59 p.m. The deadline set by the court to submit a late claim is February 5, 2023. The Court also noted that “the failure to establish one of the preceding criteria is not determinative as the real test is ultimately that justice be done between the parties”, but that “it will ordinarily be necessary for the claimant’s explanation to account for the totality of the delay, up to and including the date on which the claim is submitted”. The Court has decided that the Administrator shall accept late claims submitted after the final claims deadline of January 23, 2022, if the claimant establishes: (1) a continuing intention to pursue the matter (2) the claim has some merit (3) no prejudice arises from the delay and (4) there is a reasonable explanation for the delay. The Court has made a decision respecting late claims which can be found here. To: Potential Late Claimants of the CAF-DND Sexual Misconduct Class Action 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.CAF-DND Sexual Misconduct Class Action Settlement Many class actions that are certified are eventually settled. This lawyer is then the lawyer for all the class members.Ī defendant in two or more cases can also ask the court to convert the cases into a class action. Once the court certifies a lawsuit, it appoints the lawyer for the representative plaintiff as class counsel. The representative plaintiff must also ask the court to certify the lawsuit as a class proceeding. The Federal Court of Canada also allows certain class actions involving federal law and the federal government.Ī person who has been hurt or suffered loss can apply to BC Supreme Court to be the representative plaintiff in a lawsuit for a group of people. The Class Proceedings Act lets one person sue in BC Supreme Court for a group of people if they have similar claims against the same wrongdoer.
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