German Experience: Court Cases as a Stepping Stone for Legislation
Foreword In Germany we have many mass claims. In recent years there has been a growing interest in civil procedure rules for cases of mass torts in Germany. To understand the need and the development ...
Third Party Funding, Class Actions, and the Question of Regulation:
A Topical Analysis With third party funding of litigation becoming more prevalent in Europe, the European Parliament issued a report in June 2021 which calls for greater regulation of the participants...
Data has become a critical ingredient in the modern economy. In the same way oil powered the industrial revolution, data has powered the technological revolution of the last twenty years. Many of the ...
Another Step Forward This article examines the newly reformed Italian class action system against the background of the main features of Italian civil procedure. The new law moved the class actions fr...
Judicial Insights into the United Kingdom's Group Litigation Regime
Opinion piece The following is an edited version of a speech which Senior Master Fontaine delivered to the inaugural meeting of the Collective Redress Lawyers' Association (CORLA), which was held at C...
First judgment on a health-related group action in the Dépakine case
Case note: TJ Paris, Jan. 2022, n° 17/07001 On 5 January 2022, the Tribunal judiciaire of Paris declared admissible the first French health-related group action and found the pharmaceutical laboratory...
Standing of Consumer Organizations in Data Protection Representative Actions
Case Note: C-319/20, ECLI:EU:C:2022:322 In 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduced a representative actions mechanism in data protection cases. One of the pressing issues relate...
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