Mass Claims
Edition 2022 - 2
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Mass Claims Journal 2022, no 2
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17 January 2023
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Mass claims in competition law - a UK perspective
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...
Judge Siofra O'Leary, President of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, on Protocol 16 of the European Convention of Human Rights
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For Justice, Not Profit: Public Funding of Collective Redress
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...
Encountering Class Actions in Swedish Law and Society
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 way of assignment in Italy
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...
The role of class representatives in mass claims: Establishing the Class Representatives Network in the UK
In 2015 a new Consumer Rights Act1 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 disparate rule...
VEB v BP: Centralisation of special jurisdiction in case of purely financial damages resulting from misinformation spread on the secondary securities market
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 allocate jurisdiction on the basis of Ar...
Country reports
England and WalesAnna Dannreuther and Jackie McArthurCase lawMunicípio de Mariana and others v BHP Group (UK) Ltd (formerly BHP Group plc) and another EWCA Civ 951, WLR 4691 This litigation concerns t...
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