An individual claimant in a class action regarding administrative segregation brought a motion seeking approval to use confidential placement data of other inmates.
The claimant's counsel had inadvertently gained access to and downloaded this data from the claims administrator's database due to a legacy system error.
The court dismissed the motion, finding no basis under PIPEDA, the Privacy Act, or the Class Proceedings Act to permit the disclosure of the personal information, as it would not advance access to justice and would violate class members' privacy rights.
Furthermore, the court found the data was not relevant to the claimant's individual claim.
