Royal Winnipeg Ballet Settles $10M Class-Action Lawsuit Over Instructor’s Photos of Students
“Potentially dozens of former students of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet may be compensated after the dance company settled a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit involving a past instructor accused of taking photos of young women and teenage girls for years. The RWB has agreed to a $10-million settlement,” reports Bryce Hoye in CBC.
“The case against it and former instructor and photographer Bruce Monk. An approval hearing is scheduled for next month. It’s been a very long, difficult road for the women who’ve been involved in this case, said lawyer Margaret Waddell of the Waddell Phillips law firm. I think that they all feel a sense of relief, that they’ve reached.”