15 Feb, 2024 European Commission adopts a revised Market Definition Notice By Lena Boucon Rory Jones Alvaro Pliego Selie James Aitken Thomas Lübbig +2 more... Show less As noted by Executive Vice-President Vestager, “if something happens every 25 years, it deserves attention.[1]” Last Friday, the European...
09 Feb, 2024 Recent Trends in English & Welsh group actions By James Roberts Rebecca Fenning Owen Jack In recent years, we have seen group actions play an ever-expanding role in English litigation, driven by an explosion in litigation...
04 Jan, 2024 Bifurcated representative actions in shareholder claims rejected by English High Court By Sarah Parkes Emma Probyn Anoushka Nightingale Juliet Leung +1 more... Show less The English High Court has rejected the use of a bifurcated representative procedure to bring shareholder claims under section 90/90A and...
08 Dec, 2023 Not over yet: UK DMCC Bill enters the House of Lords with some key questions still up for debate By Sharon Malhi Rikki Haria Sarah Jensen Martin Dickson Abigail Legge Milo Noone +3 more... Show less The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the Bill) is still expected to come into force in Autumn 2024. Although the overall...
16 Nov, 2023 The beginning of the end of the ‘shareholder’ principle in Sharp v Blank? By Matthew Bruce Ali Kirby-Harris Christina Franzese Wesley Ding +1 more... Show less High Court casts doubts on principle that a company cannot assert privilege against its shareholders in litigation The ‘shareholder...
29 Sep, 2023 Redress Action in Germany – the new kid on the block? By Moritz Becker Martina de Lind van Wijngaarden Roman Mallmann Martin Mekat Michael Rohls Patrick Schroeder Elisabeth Weber Stefanie Fay Stephan Hofer Johanna Möller +7 more... Show less The German Federal Council (Bundesrat) has finally cleared the path for the German implementation of the European Representative...
26 Jul, 2023 A transforming landscape: Collective Actions in Data and Tech By Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Jelle Drok Mark Egeler Marco Vogels Basya Klinger David De Bock +3 more... Show less It is generally acknowledged that the Netherlands is a popular forum for various types of class actions. As of 25 June 2023, the...
09 Jan, 2023 Employment, incentives and pensions: 10 things to look out for in 2023 By Amy Rentell 2022 was an extremely busy year for updates in the employment, incentives and pensions space. And as we move into a new year, there are...
30 Sep, 2022 A new Collective Action Regime in Germany – Draft Bill on the Implementation of the EU Directive on Representative Actions By Michael Rohls Martina de Lind van Wijngaarden Patrick Schroeder Moritz Becker Martin Mekat Roman Mallmann Elisabeth Weber +4 more... Show less The eagerly awaited first draft of the legislation to implement the EU DIRECTIVE (EU) 2020/1828 on representative actions for the...
28 Sep, 2022 First reaction: the proposed new Product Liability Directive is more claimant-friendly than expected By Andrew Austin In summary: This morning, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal for a new Product Liability Directive, to govern...
08 Aug, 2022 Good news for international defendants facing litigation in Spain? Three recent court decisions suggest so By Natalia Gomez Since the enactment of the 1978 Spanish Constitution, the Spanish Constitutional Court has steadily protected service of claims on the...
12 Jul, 2022 How long can limitation be delayed? The UK Court of Appeal on deliberate concealment and cartel damages claims By Mark Sansom Daniel Hunt Jess Steele Adrian Wright Alisha Wright +2 more... Show less Following our previous article on January’s judgment of the UK High Court (available here), the Court of Appeal has upheld the first...