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Privacy Class Actions in Canada: Recent Trends

October 30, 2024 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join members of our national Class Actions team for a cross-country discussion of recent trends in Canadian privacy and cybersecurity law. The past year has seen significant developments in this area, particularly in the context of class actions.

Topics
  • Case law regarding solicitor-client privilege when investigating data incidents
  • The scope of possible claims facing victims of data incidents, including the emerging divergence between jurisdictions in the availability of statutory and other causes of action available against the victims of cyberattacks
  • Recent certification decisions in proposed privacy class actions

Blakes Speakers:

Event Details:
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
1 - 2 p.m. (ET)
Online

Mandatory Continuing Education
Ontario

This program contains 1 hour of Substantive content. 

British Columbia
This program has been accredited for up to 1 CPD Credit Hour with The Law Society of British Columbia and counts towards the two-hour requirement for ethics and/or practice management.

Quebec
Please note that pursuant to the amendments to the Règlement sur la formation continue obligatoire des avocats (Regulation respecting mandatory continuing education for lawyers – available in French only) of the Barreau du Québec, which came into force on April 1, 2019, the status of “recognized provider” and the mandatory “recognition” of activities have been abolished.

Blakes will continue to provide you with a confirmation of participation for your records. As stipulated in the above-mentioned regulation, members must preserve supporting documents attesting their completion of training activities for a period of seven years beginning on April 30 following the end of the reference period during which such activities were completed.