04 May, 2023 Data privacy litigation: CJEU brings clarity into non-material damages claims By Christoph Werkmeister Michael Schwaab Christian Sosna Individual actions for non-material damages following alleged infringements of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...
14 Apr, 2021 Comparing the EU’s Representative Actions Directive to US class action procedures By Linda Martin Henry Hutten This fifth blog in our series examining the EU Representative Actions Directive ("the Directive") considers how lawsuits proceeding...
25 Feb, 2021 The EU Representative Actions Directive: settlement By Dimitri Lecat Nathalie Colin Jeroen Van Hezewijk This fourth blog post in our series examining the options open to member states when implementing the Representative Actions Directive...
11 Feb, 2021 The EU Representative Actions Directive: evidence By Michael Rohls Fabrizio Arossa Natalia Gomez In this third blog of our series on the choices EU member states must make when implementing the Representative Actions Directive ('the...
27 Jan, 2021 The EU Representative Actions Directive: the funding and financial aspects By Sabine Prossinger Anne-Laure Vincent Jeroen Van Hezewijk The first blog post in this series exploring the choices open to EU member states implementing the Representative Actions Directive ('the...
19 Jan, 2021 The EU Representative Actions Directive: what to expect from member states By Martin Mekat Andrew Austin Nathalie Colin In November 2020, the Representative Actions Directive ('the Directive') was formally approved by the European Parliament. The new...
24 Nov, 2020 First EU 'collective actions' under the new Directive likely in 2023 By Martin Mekat Jeroen Van Hezewijk Andrew Austin Today the provisional agreement on the proposal for a new Directive on representative actions that was reached in June 2020 was formally...
28 Nov, 2019 EU "class actions": the Council finally plays its hand By Andrew Austin Back in April, my colleague Eugene and I posted about the slow progress of the EU’s new, and highly controversial, draft Directive on...