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Emerging Issues in Health Litigation and Regulation + E-Book
Author
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Leanne E. Tran
This title examines current and developing litigation and regulatory issues affecting the Canadian health sector.
Publication Language: English
Published: October 30, 2026
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
Health care is one of the fastest-changing areas of Canadian law, with legal and regulatory issues emerging across privacy, consent and capacity, medical negligence, research ethics, reproductive health, and more.
Emerging Issues in Health Litigation and Regulation by Leanne E. Tran examines current and developing litigation and regulatory issues affecting the Canadian health sector. It brings together more than 15 expert contributors to help lawyers, healthcare professionals, health organizations, government departments, and academics understand the risks, governance obligations, litigation trends, and practical considerations shaping the sector.
The book combines legal analysis, case law, legislation, governance considerations, and practical risk management guidance for those advising, operating within, or regulating health organizations.
Topics Covered
- Healthcare privacy
- Privacy and systemic wrongdoing class actions
- COVID-19 litigation and immunity legislation
- Long-term care
- Medical assistance in dying (MAiD)
- Supported decision-making and consent
- Medical negligence
- Healthcare commercial products
- Health research regulation
- Reproductive health
- Indigenous health care
Who Should Read This Book
- Health law, medical malpractice, and personal injury lawyers to help clients navigate, minimize, and prevent the risks of lawsuits, class actions, and other legal and regulatory proceedings, and to provide risk management techniques
- In-house counsel to advise their organizations about the legal and regulatory risks and implications that arise in health organizations
- Healthcare professionals to understand and deal with the legal and regulatory issues affecting their day-to-day practice
- Health organizations to help identify, avoid, and control potential legal, regulatory, governance, and practical problems encountered
- Government health departments to understand emerging issues in the healthcare industry and to create law and policy to address these issues and mitigate risk
- Professors and students who are studying the legal, regulatory, governance, and risk management issues in the health sector
- Law libraries and associations looking for a resource on health litigation for their patrons
Contributors
Oneal Banerjee
Karine Bédard
Emily Caza
Vanessa D’Ambrosio
Leah deVries
Karine Diedrich
Lauren Furukawa
Christine Galea
Kurt Goddard
Vashini Jaunky
Colin Johnston
Tara Landry
Justin McCarthy
Serena Meghji
Alexandria Myrie
Golnaz Nayerahmadi
Ken Pike
Joanna Weiss
Purpose of and How to Use this Book
Chapter 1: Healthcare Privacy in Canada – Leanne E. Tran
Chapter 2: Privacy Law Class Actions – Karine Bédard, Sotos LLP
Chapter 3: Systemic Wrongdoing Class Actions: Righting Wrongs in the Healthcare Context – Golnaz Nayerahmadi, Rochon Genova LLP
Chapter 4: A Review of the Implications of COVID-19 – Christine Galea, Oneal Banerjee, Alexandria Myrie and Lauren Furukawa, Dolden Wallace Folick LLP
Chapter 5: Long-Term Care Facilities – Leanne E. Tran
Chapter 6: Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada – Colin Johnston and Leah deVries, Lenczner Slaght LLP
Chapter 7: The Rise of Supported Decision-Making and the Quiet Rewriting of Consent Law in Canada – Emily Caza and Joanna Weiss, Whaley Estate Litigation Partners (with contributions from Ken Pike and Kurt Goddard, Inclusion Canada; Tara Landry and Karine Diedrich, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association)
Chapter 8: Medical Negligence Litigation—Proving Negligence – Leanne E. Tran, JD MD Solutions and Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care; Justin McCarthy, Vashini Jaunky and Vanessa D’Ambrosio, Gowling WLG
Chapter 9: Healthcare Commercial Products – Leanne E. Tran
Chapter 10: Regulation of Health Research and Research Scandals as Case Studies – Leanne E. Tran
Chapter 11: The Role of the Law in Regulating Reproductive Health – Leanne E. Tran and Serena Meghji
Chapter 12: Indigenous Health Care – Leanne E. Tran
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