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Superior Court of Québec Expresses Serious Reservations about Pre-Approving Private Funding of Class Actions

A Quebec court has refused to pre-approve an LFA, ruling that the plaintiff’s legal fees, and by extension the reasonableness of the proposed agreement, could only be assessed against the results achieved through a final judgment or out-of-court settlement.