Bundling of follow-on damages claims – an efficient way to litigate in the Ne...
Mieke Dudok van Heel1Private enforcement actions are often brought in the Netherlands as mass claims. Claimants do not – and cannot (yet) – use the procedure for collective actions provided for in the Dutch Code of Civil Procedure since 1 January 2020,[1] but bring the claims using the 'assignment model'. A special purpose vehicle (litigation or claim vehicle), usually financed by professional litigation funders, 'collects' claims – sometimes thousands – from numerous injured parties – usually substantial companies in their own right – throughout Europe, or even beyond, an... ...lees meer