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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario released this past week. The Court released a great number of decisions this week, some of them quite lengthy.

In Das v George Weston Limited, the Court of Appeal upheld a decision of Justice Perrell in which His Honour had dismissed as disclosing no reasonable cause of action a $2 billion class action against Loblaws in relation to the tragic 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh. That collapse killed or seriously injured over 3,600 people, many of whom worked for Loblaws’ suppliers of its Joe Fresh clothing line.

The Court held that the claims were governed by the laws of Bangladesh and that, as a result, most of the claims were statute-barred as a result of Bangladesh’s Limitations Act, 1908. Furthermore, the Court held that it was “plain and obvious” that the claims that were not statute-barred would fail under Bangladeshi and English tort law. Loblaws, as merely a customer of the garment manufacturers who carried on business in Rana Plaza, simply did not owe a duty to the victims.

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