Foreword Spill a cup of coffee Make a million dollars sang Toby Keith in 2009, as he ironically listed things that make America what it is today. Referring to a fast-food customer who spilled coffee i...

While class action procedures are spreading around the world, the Swiss legislator is struggling to find a meaningful regime for collective redress. This article describes the current Swiss legal fram...

ESG is a broad concept entailing several – or: many – aspects of sustainable conduct. Mass claims based on private law notions have long been an instrument in pursuing interests that would nowadays be...

Rapporteur of the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs on its Recommendations for responsible private funding of litigation ...

Workshop Report The national provisions transposing the Representative Actions Directive should have been adopted and published by December 2022. Despite that, numerous Member States have failed to do...

Case Note: EWHC 398 (Comm) EWHC 1169 (KB) Recent case law developments in England suggest that it may be possible for the English Civil Procedure Rule 19.8 to be applied more broadly than has previous...

England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain England and Wales Anna Dannreuther Case law Municpio de Mariana v BHP Group (UK) Ltd EWCA Civ 951 The Supreme Court has refu...