Berenguer v. SATA Internacional - Azores Airlines, S.A

Decided: 2026-09-16. Docket: A-224-25. Citation: 2026 FCA 154 (CanLII). Procedure — Class proceedings — Certification — Issue estoppel, functus officio — Motion to determine whether a fresh motion for certification may proceed — Remedial jurisdiction to re-open the certification motion — Preferable procedure and evidence “necessarily in issue” — Finality in the judicial system — Appeal dismissed | Procedure — Res judicata — Issue estoppel — Danyluk conditions — Whether the first condition, the “same question”, was met — Preferable procedure and evidence required to establish it — “Distinctly put in issue and directly determined” and matters “necessarily determined” — Issue estoppel engaged — Appeal dismissed | Procedure — Discretion — Setting aside issue estoppel — Whether discretion shoul