Transnational Class Actions: The Canadian Experience and the Improvement of Access to Justice in Latin America

Abstract

This paper analyses how the Canadian experience of class actions could contribute to the improvement of access to justice in Latin American, in a scene that damages are no longer restricted to state borders. For that, the text clarifies the concept of transnational class actions and how they could improve the prevention and reparation of damages that are no longer restricted to state borders. Then, based on the Canadian experience, that are different models of class actions, proposals are made for the admissibility and enforcement of transnational class actions in Latin American context. Keywords: Transnational class actions; Latin America; Canada.