How do I check whether a Canadian class action is real?

Find the court-appointed administrator site, confirm the proceeding in the Canadian Bar Association National Class Action Database, confirm that a court approved it through the decisions published on CanLII, and cross-check the provincial superior court listing. A settlement that cannot be traced to a court record should be treated as unverified regardless of how the page looks.

Is there an official list of all class actions in Canada?

There is no single exhaustive government list. The Canadian Bar Association National Class Action Database is the closest national registry, provincial superior courts publish their own class proceedings listings, and CanLII carries the court decisions including certification and settlement approval.

What is CanLII and how does it help?

CanLII publishes Canadian court decisions, including certification and settlement approval reasons. It is the step where a claimed settlement becomes a matter of record rather than an assertion on a web page, which is why fake settlement pages fail there.

Who administers class action settlements in Canada?

A claims administrator appointed by the court, frequently a specialist claims or accounting firm. The court-approved notice names the administrator, and that notice rather than the firm name is the thing to check a claims page against.

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How to check whether a Canadian class action is real, using official sources only

September 2, 2026 · 4 min read

You can verify almost any Canadian class action yourself in about ten minutes, without trusting any listing site: including this one. Here is the method we use before a settlement is allowed into the product.

The order matters

Find the administrator's own site. A real settlement has a court-appointed administrator with a claims page. If you cannot find one, everything downstream is moot.
Confirm the proceeding exists. The CBA National Class Action Database (cba.org) is the closest thing Canada has to a national registry.
Confirm a court approved it. CanLII (canlii.org) carries the decisions, including certification and settlement approval. This is where a proceeding stops being a claim someone is making and becomes a matter of record.
Cross-check the court. Provincial superior courts publish their own class proceedings listings: Ontario and British Columbia both do.
Then, and only then, file: on the administrator's site, never on a page that offers to submit for you.

What each source can and cannot tell you

Source	Confirms	Does not confirm
CBA database	A proceeding exists, and who counsel is	Whether it settled, or whether claims are open
CanLII	A court approved something, with reasons	Practical claim details like deadlines
Provincial court	The case is on that court's list	Anything about other provinces
Administrator site	The deadline, the amounts, the form	Nothing, but confirm it is the real administrator first

The failure this catches

Almost every fake or misleading settlement page fails at step 3. Lead-generation sites and law firm advertisements can imitate a claims page convincingly, but they cannot produce a court file, an approval decision and a named administrator that all agree with each other.

That is why our own pipeline requires a court and a case number before a settlement can be listed, and rejects aggregator domains as claim links outright. A settlement that cannot be traced to a court record does not get published, however plausible the page looks.

A shortcut that is not a substitute

Our list is the same work done in advance, and rechecked daily. Use it to find out what is open, and if a settlement matters to you, the sources above let you confirm it independently in ten minutes. A listing site that discourages you from checking is telling you something.

What is open right now →
How to tell an administrator page from a lead-gen form →

Common questions

Is there an official government list of Canadian class actions?

Not a single one. The CBA database is the nearest national registry; courts publish their own proceedings; CanLII holds the decisions.

What if the settlement is not in the CBA database?

The database is not exhaustive. Fall back to the court record on CanLII and the administrator site, and treat a settlement you cannot trace to either as unverified.

How do I know the administrator is genuine?

The court-approved notice names them. Canadian settlements are frequently administered by firms such as RicePoint, Trilogy, Epiq Canada or Deloitte, but the notice, not the name, is the proof.

PayUpBro is not a law firm and never files a claim for you. This page describes how to verify publicly available court records; it is not legal advice. Whether you qualify is decided by the court-appointed settlement administrator, not by us.