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UK & EU Class Actions
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Aug 15, 2024
Aug 15, 2024
Class Representatives in the United States
The efficiency of the US class action regime hinges upon a core procedural mechanism: the class representative.
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Aug 15, 2024
Aug 15, 2024
Funding Representative Actions
The Strategic Decision between CPR 19.8 and Collective Actions in the CAT
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Aug 15, 2024
Aug 15, 2024
Navigating representative proceedings in the High Court
With the rise of litigation funding of group actions, there has been an increasing use of representative actions by Claimants in recent years.
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Nov 28, 2023
Nov 28, 2023
Collective settlement of mass claims: an opportunity for innovation
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Nov 28, 2023
Nov 28, 2023
The FCA’s redress scheme powers: a renewed vigour to secure redress?
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Nov 06, 2023
Nov 06, 2023
Can multiple claimants use the same claim form in group actions?
A recent decision in the Birmingham County Court has added to the body of case law growing around the test for listing multiple claimants on the same claim form. In Angel and others v Black Horse…
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Sep 14, 2023
Sep 14, 2023
Raising the stakes in activist shareholder claims
The High Court has ordered that ClientEarth pay Shell’s costs in connection with all aspects of ClientEarth’s unsuccessful application for permission to continue a derivative claim against Shell and…
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Sep 12, 2023
Sep 12, 2023
The High Court has made a Group Litigation Order (GLO) in the class action proceedings of Tongue & Ors v Bayer Public Ltd Company & Ors [2023] EWHC 1792 (KB). This appears to be only the second GLO…
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Aug 30, 2023
Aug 30, 2023
English High Court casts its jurisdictional net wider in the Fundão Dam class action proceedings
In the High Court’s recent judgment in Município de Mariana & Ors v BHP Group (UK) Limited & Anor the Court found that England was “clearly the appropriate forum” to determine whether Vale SA, a…
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Aug 07, 2023
Aug 07, 2023
PACCAR: a new direction for the funding of class actions?
The Supreme Court’s decision in R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) (Appellants) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others (Respondents) [2023] UKSC 28 has caused a stir in the legal…
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