In a recent London Free Press article, Professor Jasminka Kalajdzic commented on the Crown Ward class action lawsuit. Compensation has been rejected for thousands of adults who suffered years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse in foster, adoptive and group homes, while they were Crown wards (children taken permanently by the Crown, or province, from their families and caregivers) from 1966 to 2017.
Many objectors to the settlement have sought help from the Class Action Clinic at Windsor Law. Clinic Director and Professor Jasminka Kalajdzic says rejection of a settlement is rare, and an appeal of that rejection is rarer still.
The clinic will seek standing if the matter gets the Divisional Court “to argue why the judge did not err in her decision to reject the settlement,” she said.