‘Ministers are to meet to consider possible ways of clearing the names of hundreds of sub-postmasters convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal.’
BBC News, 8th January 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The government has acknowledged concerns that its legislative proposal to address the Supreme Court’s PACCAR ruling does not go far enough – but further change is not imminent.’
Legal Futures, 15th December 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) was wrong to identify a rule that prevents defendants communicating directly with legally represented members of an opt-out class action, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 11th December 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The UK’s biggest mobile phone companies face a £3.3bn class action lawsuit alleging that long-standing customers are being ripped off by “loyalty penalties”, under which the same services are offered to new customers at a better price to lure them from rivals.’
The Guardian, 7th December 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Former Wales stars Gavin Henson and Colin Charvis are among 295 ex-players suing the rugby authorities over brain injuries, it has emerged. The High Court heard on Friday that an application for the cases to be heard collectively would be made next year.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has approved a litigation funding agreement (LFA) that was amended to take account of the Supreme Court ruling in PACCAR.’
Legal Futures, 24th November 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Collective redress schemes, often referred to as ‘compensation schemes’, offer businesses and organisations an alternative means of settling claims or potential claims from a particular class of individuals or customers quickly and economically.’
OUT-LAW.com, 20th October 2023
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A “pioneering” £1.5m settlement has been agreed in a car delivery charges opt-out claim which the Competition Appeal Tribunal will now need to approve – potentially a first for the tribunal in a collective action.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 12th October 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Sheffield city council is to become the latest local authority to face a mass equal pay claim from women who have been underpaid by up to £11,000 a year, the GMB union has said.’
The Guardian, 25th September 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Judges in the Competition Appeal Tribunal have taken a scythe to costs claims where solicitors were charging as much as 70% above the guideline hourly rate in a high profile group action.’
Law Society's Gazette, 12th September 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Google faces a new multibillion-pound lawsuit from UK consumers accusing the company of contributing to cost-of-living price rises.’
The Guardian, 7th September 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Has the CAT turned full circle in its approach to collective proceedings orders (CPOs)?’
Competition Bulletin, 2nd September 2023
Source: competitionbulletin.com
‘Two hundred women in the UK who claim they were left in pain after having a permanent contraception device fitted, can now take group legal action through the courts, against its manufacturer.’
BBC News, 5th September 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘On 25 July 2023, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in UK Trucks Claim Limited v Stellantis NV (formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV) & Others [2023] EWCA Civ 875. The appeal raised important issues in the continued development of the collective proceedings regime, including as to how conflicts of interest within a class might be addressed, the willingness of the Court of Appeal to interfere with the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (“CAT”) assessment of two rival applications for a collective proceedings order (“CPO”), and the scope of the statutory jurisdiction to appeal. The judgment is accessible here.’
Henderson Chambers, 28th July 2023
Source: www.hendersonchambers.co.uk
‘The High Court has stayed a potential group action against University College London, which cancelled in-person teaching (due to industrial action and Covid-19) but without making any fee adjustments. Whilst the High Court did not require the parties to engage in any particular form of ADR, the stay was imposed in the context of the defendant’s proposal that the claimants should submit complaints to a statutory adjudication scheme. The stay was imposed against the wishes of the claimants, who – whilst expressing a willingness to engage in ADR – did not want to participate in the particular form of ADR proposed by the defendants.’
Henderson Chambers, 27th July 2023
Source: www.hendersonchambers.co.uk
‘The public could receive hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation in the first class action against water companies which are alleged to have failed to reveal the true scale of raw sewage discharges, and abused their position as privatised monopolies.’
The Guardian, 9th August 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Court of Appeal last week overturned a decision that £2.7bn collective proceedings over a foreign exchange spot-trading cartel should be on an opt-in, rather than opt-out, basis.’
Legal Futures, 31st July 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A judge has paused a multi-million-pound student group action claim against a London university over Covid and strike disruption and encouraged parties to resolve their dispute away from court.’
Law Society's Gazette, 18th July 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court has refused mining giant BHP permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision allowing the largest group action ever to go ahead.’
Legal Futures, 12th June 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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