Rechtszaak afgewezen
Een poging van een aantal Canadese rokers om de tabaksindustrie aan te klagen is door een gerechtshof afgewezen. De groep rokers die de rechtszaak wilden beginnen is té diffuus om als groep te worden gezien volgens een rechter.
Smokers took aim at tobacco companies in the multimillion-dollar lawsuit. But Superior Court Justice Warren Winkler ruled the lawsuit was too broad and did not meet the requirements for certification.
“In essence, the plaintiffs seek certification of an amorphous group of people comprised of individuals of different ages, covering different decades, who knew different things concerning the risks inherent in smoking and who began to smoke for different reasons,” the judge said in his decision.
“The only apparent common element in this action is that all of the proposed class members allegedly smoked cigarettes at one time or another.”
