Dr. Joanne Blennerhassett:

I have conferred with Professor Hodges on this. I believe there are emerging new technologies and that is why I say that we need a suite of responses potentially for dealing with collective redress ranging from ombudsmen to regulatory redress, alternative dispute resolution, ADR, and the courts. We do not need more litigation but the litigation is happening and that is where the role of the courts is important.

At present, we do not have any other mechanisms. We do not have enough of those other techniques. Until we have, we certainly need a multi-party action. That will work as one of the tools in the toolkit to deal with collective redress.