VancouverA $30-million settlement over alleged historical abuse at two Vancouver-area Catholic schools has been approved by the B.C. Supreme Court, but the deal could unravel after the judge gave 12 former students permission to leave the class action and pursue their own lawsuits. Most of the 12 had already started their own individual lawsuits alleging abuse outside the class action. Coval found that the class action settlement could have prevented them from proceeding against the schools and archdiocese, something he said they could not reasonably have foreseen when the original opt-out deadline passed. Supreme Court certified the case as a class action on March 8, 2023.