There are survivors among the students who attended St. Ann’s Academy in Kamloops. They deserve to be heard.
Slater Vecchio is investigating a potential class action that would help former students who endured abuse from school employees during their time at St. Ann’s Academy, and to hold the school accountable for past systemic failures.
If your time at St. Ann’s Academy was marked by physical or sexual harm, please know you are not alone, and what happened was not your fault or your responsibility. You don’t have to have all the answers, or even know if you want to proceed; we simply want to listen to you.
A class action is a legal case through which one person makes a claim to the Court on behalf of a similarly situated class of people who have the same or a similar legal claim. A class action seeks to hold a defendant or defendants responsible for their conduct that affects each member of the class by resolving issues that are common to the class in the same legal proceeding, instead of each class member bringing a claim individually.
The individual who first files the claim must ask the Court for permission to proceed as a class action. If permission is granted (referred as “authorized” in Quebec, and “certified” in all other Canadian provinces) and the case may proceed as a class action, the Court will appoint an individual as “Representative Plaintiff” to represent the best interests of the class during the litigation and will define the class group. Each person who meets the criteria of the class group is considered a “Class Member”.
The potential class action would represent former students of St. Ann’s Academy in Kamloops who suffered physical or sexual harm from teachers or other school personnel.
For more information or to participate in this potential class action, please fill out the form on this webpage, and we will contact you.
