Merchant Law Group LLP - Class Actions

Residential Schools (IAP)

Merchant Law Group LLP was instrumental in achieving a settlement for Residential School Survivors in Canada. Survivors of qualifying schools were entitled to receive the Common Experience Payment,andin addition to the Common Experience Payment, significant further financial compensation may also be available for certain Survivors.

The Independent Assessment Process (IAP) is an adjudication process to provide further financial compensation for sexual abuse claims or serious incidents of physical abuse, through an out-of-court hearing process before an independent adjudicator.

Additional monetary compensation for sexualand serious physical abuse will be paid by the Government to Survivorsbasedon a determination of the claim by an independent adjudicator through the IAP.

If people decide to pursue an IAP claim, the Government will additionally contribute 15% towards any legal costs.

Survivors should contact us for a free consultation to find out if this additional compensation is possible in their case. For Survivors who suffered significant physical abuse or any kind of sexual abuse,our law firm may be able to obtain additional money for them, just as we have for thousands of Survivors since 1997. A few years ago, we obtained a record setting trial judgment for aSurvivor which exceeded $300,000.00. We also settled a case for $200,000.00 and another for $209,000 on behalf of individual Residential School Survivors.

We often obtain more than $100,000 in compensation for sexually abused Survivors, through the out-of-court IAP hearing process.Depending upon the circumstances that apply in a specific case, the compensation can be very large. However, it depends on the individual hearing in each case and your individual facts.

Please note that the deadline to commence an IAP claim is next September, 2012 so please contact our firm without delay, for a free initial legal consultation.

Or by completing the below Online Form or email us at merchant@merchantlaw.com, for a free initial legal consultation

IF YOU NEED HELP WITH YOUR COMMON EXPERIENCE OR IAP CLAIM (OR FOR OTHER INFORMATION), PLEASE COMPLETE THE BELOW FORM OR CALL OUR FIRM AT 1 888 567 7777.(Please note, providing your information creates no financial obligation for you. You are not charged any fee or cost for joining this class action - we are simply paid a contingency fee from the compensation recovered, if successful.)

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Merchant Law Group LLP has 12 offices across Canada, with lawyers practising law in six Canadian provinces and an American state.

Tony Merchant, Q.C., and our firm is well known for their involvement in Mass & Class Action cases in Canada, including class proceedings regarding Complete Contact Lens Solution, Silicon Breast Implant, Winners/HomeSense, HSBC Mutual Funds, Various Cellular Phone Fees, Molson-Coors Merger, Conrad Black/Hollinger, GM Gasket Manifolds, Lead Paint in Toys (and similar consumer products), Menu Foods, Paxil, Vioxx, Agent Orange, MÃ©tis Veteran Benefits, Cryptosporidium Water, Sony, Residential School litigation, CPR Anhydrous Ammonia, and cases regarding ISM Information Security, Tundra noxious gas emissions, Zonolite, Canadian Wheat Board Pool transfers, and various other cases. Tony Merchant is known to be one of Canadaâ€™s most active litigators with more than 600 reported cases in leading Caselaw Journals, having argued thousands of cases before the Canadian and American Courts, in Trial and Administrative Courts, and the Courts of Appeal of various American and Canadian jurisdictions, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Tony Merchant, Q.C., has a long history of pursuing public policy cases and was an elected Member of the Legislative Assembly (M.L.A.).

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