G20 Summit Class Action
In June of 2010, Toronto police conducted the largest mass arrests in Canadian history during global G20 summit meetings in Toronto. Police arrested and jailed over 1000 people, including peaceful protesters, journalists, legal observers, tourists, and bystanders. The vast majority of those jailed were eventually released with no charges, or were charged with offences that were later stayed, withdrawn, or dismissed. Ontario’s Ombudsman André Marin called the summit policing operation “the most massive compromise of civil liberties in Canadian history.”
Klippensteins and Eric Gillespie are co-counsel for a class action lawsuit intended to preserve and affirm the fundamental civil rights of those individuals who were held by police without good cause, and in defence of the rights and liberties of all Canadians.
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