The Evolution of the Class Action Trial in Ontario
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Abstract
Only a few short years ago, there was a nearly universal view among practitioners in the class actions field: any class action case that could be certified was almost surely going to settle. The fact of the matter, however, is that this universal view is incorrect. Full-blown class action trials have been occurring in Canada for decades. The authors of this paper embarked on an investigative research project in 2011, aimed at discovering, to the greatest extent possible, all class action matters across the country that had been tried since the advent of class action legislation. Because there were no sources of consolidated information, the investigation required both conventional and unconventional research techniques. This paper will describe the investigation and its surprising results, suggest techniques for trial management, and conclude that class action proceedings have evolved into a healthy process for trial resolution.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it