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Client Alert September 9, 2025
International Class Actions Update – September 2025
This update highlights the recently enacted French Representative Action with its significant changes to the French class action regime. We also discuss the ramifications of a new climate change class action in the Netherlands for further climate litigation around the world and provide an update on third-party funding in the UK.
Client Alert June 4, 2025
UK Competition Appeal Tribunal Approves Collective Settlement in Long-Running Merricks Class Action
The Judgment is only the third occasion on which the Competition Appeal Tribunal has been required to approve a collective settlement, and it offers valuable insight to the CAT’s developing approach to a settlement procedure still in its infancy.
Client Alert March 6, 2025
International Class Action Update – March 2025
Class and collective actions are expanding globally. Our “International Class Action Update” highlights recent developments in the EU and UK. …
Client Alert August 2, 2023
UK Supreme Court Rules That Many Litigation Funding Agreements Are Unenforceable in England & Wales
In a greatly anticipated judgment of the UK’s Supreme Court, a 4-1 majority has ruled that litigation funding agreements, under which the funder’s remuneration is calculated by reference to a share of the damages ultimately recovered, fall within the statutory definition of damages-based agreements.
Client Alert August 24, 2021
Merricks v Mastercard: UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal Allows First Ever Opt-Out Class Action
The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has certified the first application for a collective proceedings order on an opt-out basis in Walter Hugh Merricks CBE v Mastercard Incorporated & Ors.
Client Alert December 14, 2020
Merricks v Mastercard – Supreme Court Confirms Certification Test for UK Class Actions
In one of the most anticipated rulings of recent years, on 11 December 2020 the UK Supreme Court handed down judgment in Merricks v Mastercard, dismissing (by a majority) Mastercard’s appeal against the criteria established by the Court of Appeal for the certification of class actions by the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).