It was the largest class action in Cana da’s history, and there was a general counsel, sitting where no GC ever wants to be. Over the course of three long days in early April, Roger Ackman, Imperial Tobacco Canada’s general counsel from 1972 to 1999, sat in the hot seat in Superior Court in Montrealgrilled by a plaintiffs lawyer for destroying company documents.
Plaintiffs attorneys have said that about 100 documents were shredded in the early nineties, and they questioned Ackman about five of them in court. All were scientific reports dealing with harmful effects of smoking, such as skin tumors in mice, or emphysema in people deficient in a certain enzyme.
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