The first attempt by the United Kingdom to introduce a provision for collective actions for competition claims was a failure. In 2002, the UK competition legislation was amended to enable a designated...

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Third-party litigation funding (TPLF) is widely viewed outside of Canada and the United States as indispensable to a viable collective litigation regime. Australia, for example, has a robust TPLF indu...

Class actions in Sweden are not flourishing. This article examines why the oldest class action regime in Scandinavia has not developed into anything more than a peripheral addition to the Swedish lega...

Bundling of claims by assignment (the so-called assignment model) is rapidly emerging in the European Union ("EU") as the favorite alternative to group actions for damages (either collective or repres...

Opinion Piece In 2015 a new Consumer Rights Act entered the statute books in the UK. It propelled the country's consumer rights framework into the modern era, bringing together a variety of hitherto d...

Case Note: C-709/19, ECLI:EU:C:2021:377 The judgment of the CJEU in VEB v BP confirms that the occurrence of purely financial loss in a bank account or investment account is in itself insufficient to ...

England and Wales, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain England and Wales Anna Dannreuther and Jackie McArthur Case law Municpio de Mariana and others v BHP Group (UK) Ltd (formerl...