This paper provides a non-comprehensive list of categories of class action law suits that have been filed against the government with varying success. Other topics of discussion include the perils of suing the government, alternative remedies and preferable procedures, and settlement issues. Attached is an examination of the most recent SCC and Alberta decisions and developments in class action law. This paper was originally produced for Western Canadian Class Actions Conference 2013 (Continuing Legal Education Society of BC: January, 2013)

This paper was presented at the 47th Annual Refresher – Civil Litigation program in April 2014.