On Friday, November 28, 2025, Justice Peter Rosinski will consider a Notice of Motion to approve a proposed settlement in the following class action lawsuit:

SH-447198 - Richard Robert Martell and Michael Harry Gerald Perrier Vs. The Attorney General of Nova Scotia, representing Her Majesty the Queen in right of the Province of Nova Scotia and Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority

The case, first filed in January 2016 and certified as a class proceeding in January 2019, alleges the Defendants were negligent in operating, supervising and managing the School for the Deaf in Halifax and the Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf in Amherst. The Plaintiffs bring this action on behalf of themselves and all former students who attended and/or resided at one or both of the schools and suffered physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse.

The Notice of Action can be found on the Courts’ Class Action Registry at https://courts.ns.ca/courts/supreme-court/class-action-registry.

This proceeding will be livestreamed from Courtroom 504 at the Halifax Law Courts on the Courts of Nova Scotia website to ensure it is accessible to members of the class. The livestream will include ASL interpretation.

The hearing is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, November 28. The public can watch the livestream on the Courts of Nova Scotia website here.

As per the Nova Scotia Courts’ copyright policy, webcasts of court proceedings may not be broadcast or re-broadcast by embedding them in another website or by any other means. However, portions of the webcasts (audio and video) may be re-broadcast as part of conventional news coverage. Hyperlinks to the live webcast page and the page of archived videos on the Courts of Nova Scotia website are permitted.