Access to Justice, Judicial Economy, and Behaviour Modification: Exploring the Goals of Canadian Class Actions
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The author examines the three goals of class actions in Canada: access to justice, judicial economy, and behaviour modification, with a focus on the preferability inquiry at certification. A comprehensive analysis of the goals is undertaken through an examination of the various law commission reports, critical commentary, and case law from the Supreme Court of Canada and lower courts in every Canadian jurisdiction with class proceedings legislation. While courts and commentators have focused on the economic aspects of access to justice in certification applications, the author advances the position that the definition and use of access to justice needs to be broadened, mainly by considering non-economic factors. The certification stage is vital to access to justice as it can transform claims that are otherwise non-viable (because the cost of litigation exceeds any potential benefits) into aggregate viable claims. Through this transformation, certification breathes new life into substantive rights, something that the author asks the courts to consider when they engage with whether or not to certify a class.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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