Directive (EU) 2020/1828: A new framework for EU class actions | Allen & Overy LLP
For many years now, the EU has sought to create a collective redress mechanism across the EU market. Half of the EU member states have little or no such mechanism.
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For many years now, the EU has sought to create a collective redress mechanism across the EU market. Half of the EU member states have little or no such mechanism.
Recent court decisions have signaled the English courts’ willingness to embrace multi-claimant litigation and to broaden the types of questions decided on a collective basis. These...
The Supreme Court of Gibraltar this week found in favour of our clients and dismissed an application by the defendants to strike out our clients’ claim against them on all three grounds...
The chair of the inquiry into the Horizon computer system scandal at post offices has slammed delays on decisions about compensation applications.
And in the course of that group litigation the secrets really started to come out and it ended in two judgments which found comprehensively in favour of the post office. in fact, the presiding judge in that case was so concerned about the evidence that he had seen from employees given in previous court cases against sub—postmasters, he referred a file to director of public prosecutions and there is now an ongoing metropolitan police investigation. thus far has anyone at post office, anyone at fujitsu, anyone at the government, taken personal responsibility, collective responsibility for ruin...