Patricia A. Speight
Practice Areas:
- Civil litigation
- Class actions
Dr. Speight is currently a member of the counsel team prosecuting, among others, the following class actions:
- Foreign exchange charges on securities transactions - National Bank, Nesbitt Burns, RBC Direct, Royal Bank Full Service
- Product liability - Guidant
- Price Fixing - Chocolates, Korean Air, Polyurethane, Transatlantic, Transpacific
- Securities – Alange, Armtec, Imax
- Other - Manulife, Trinity
Dr. Speight was a member of the plaintiffs' counsel group in the following successfully resolved class actions:
- Criminal rates of interest - Money Mart
- Foreign exchange charges on credit cards - BNS Visa Card, CIBC Visa Card, TD Visa Card
- Product liability - Surestep
- Securities - Atlas, CV Technologies, NovaGold, Southwestern, YBM
- Other - Hepatitis C, Walkerton
Admitted:
Ontario, 1986
Education:
University of Windsor (LL.B.)
University of Oxford (post-doctoral)
University of Toronto (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.)

