Tina Qi Yang

Tina Yang helps people leverage the legal system to seek justice when their rights have been violated, whether as workers, consumers, investors, or simply humans. This includes prosecuting class actions and mass torts to address collective wrongs, as well as a diverse range of other civil litigation.

Tina’s class action experience is noteworthy for its breadth, as she has achieved successes for clients in cases relating to: Charter breaches & state accountability, institutional abuse, Indigenous rights, employment law, privacy breaches, consumer protection/product liability, securities and other financial frauds, professional negligence, and more.

Having litigated a number of cases through the discovery and trial preparation processes―including acting as counsel in the first ever Federal Court class action common issues trial―Tina is one of the few class action lawyers with the experience to tackle the unique challenges of trial and push cases forward to secure the best possible outcome for her clients.

Other highlights of Tina’s precedent-setting experience include acting as counsel in:

A proud Prairie expat, Tina is called to the bar in both Ontario and her home province of Saskatchewan. She has represented clients before all levels of court in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, as well as the Federal Courts and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

Tina is frequently invited to speak to other lawyers and to law students on class action, civil procedure, and privacy law issues. She is the Vice-Chair of The Advocates’ Society Class Actions Practice Group, the editorial board of the Toronto Law Journal, and the steering committee of the Cambridge Forum on Class Actions. She previously taught class actions law at Queen’s University, and served in leadership positions with the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund, the Ontario Class Actions Bench-Bar Liaison Committee, and the Ontario Bar Association’s Class Actions Law section executive. She is recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada as a leading practitioner in class action litigation.