Chinese lawyers have decided to pursue a collective action against the government-owned manufacturer of milk that sickened tens of thousands of people earlier this fall. As discussed in this October 1, 2008 ClassActionBlawg entry, victims and their lawyers were slow to turn to the courts for redress due at least in part to pressure from government officials that pursue redress through [...]
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Collective Suit Filed over Tainted Milk in China After All
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged chinese class action, Class Action News, collective action, collective redress, International Class Action Law on November 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Does an Opt-Out Collective Action Scheme Spell Doom for Businesses in the UK?
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged British class action, class action reform, Class Action Trends, collective action, International Class Action Law, opt in, opt out, opt out collective action, UK class action on October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fullbright & Jaworski International attorneys Antony Corsi and Ian Pegram authored an article published yesterday in the Times Online discussing whether proposed opt-out collective action procedures are likely to lead to huge increases in litigation costs for companies doing business in the UK and due to a rash of frivolous class actions. As I have noted in previous entries, the British [...]
UK’s Civil Justice Council Recommends US-Style Procedures for Collective Actions
Posted in Class Action Legislation, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Reports and Surveys, tagged British class action, civil justice council, class action reform, collective action, cy pres, european class action reform, International Class Action Law, UK class action, UK collective action on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As reported today in the UK trade publication Professional Pensions, the Civil Justice Council, a governmental advisory committee charged with studying and recommending policy decisions relating to civil justice issues, issued a report earlier this month recommending that enhanced collective action procedures be adopted in the British civil courts. The procedures, if adopted, would include many of the [...]
Stanford Law School Offers Clearinghouse of Global Class Action Information
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Lawyers' Resources, tagged class action reform, collective action, foreign class action, global class action, group action, International Class Action Law, stanford university on July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I recently came across Stanford Law School’s Global Class Actions Exchange, a fantastic resource for anyone interested in trends in class, group, mass and other collective actions outside the U.S. The site offers a collection of papers presented by legal scholars from various countries on group action issues at a symposium held at Oxford University last December. It also provides a [...]
Partial Glossary of Representative Actions and Terms
Posted in Class Action Trends, Other Representative Actions, tagged aggregator, associational standing, bellwether, class action, collateral estoppel, collective action, derivative suits, dispositive motion, issue preclusion, mass action, non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel, parens patriae, qui tam, representative action, reverse bifurcation, virtual representation on May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I commented recently on the fact that the well publicized “class-action” trial against the United States Department of Veteran’s Affairs was never actually certified as a class action. Instead, the case is being pursued by two nonprofit veterans’ advocacy groups who are pursuing the case on behalf of their members based on a concept called associational [...]
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Consumers Don’t Benefit from UK Collective Actions. So How Exactly Does that Make them Different from US Class Actions?
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Commentary, International Class Action Law, tagged antitrust, antitrust conference, class action reform, collective action, International Class Action Law, jjb sports, opt in, opt out, UK class action, UK collective action on December 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
UK legal publication The Lawyer has an interesting article out today for anyone tracking trends in class and collective action reform across the pond. According to the article, Which?, a consumer organization granted the right to pursue collective redress on behalf of consumers harmed by conduct declared to have violated antitrust laws, isn’t convinced that it would [...]
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