After 12 years of litigation, a trial court in Germany has finally reached a decision in a landmark case for group actions in European civil law jurisdictions. The court decided that Deutsche Telekom did not make false or misleading statements of fact in a prospectus for a secondary stock offering in 2000. The case was [...]
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Finally, a Decision in the Groundbreaking Group Action Against Deutsche Telekom
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged capital market proceedings act, civil law, deutsche telekom, european class action, german class action, group litigation, international class action, kapmug, model proceeding, multi-party litigation, prospectus liability, representative action, securities class action, telekom on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 6 – Paths to (Mass) Justice
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged Class Action Trends, collective action, collective redress, european class action, european collective action, international class action, mass harm, mass injury, mass tort, prediction on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This is the sixth and final installment of a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the summaries for Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4, and Session 5. Paths to (Mass) Justice To wrap up the conference, Dr. Sam [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session II – Who’s Paying?
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged attorney fees, attorneys fees, australia, cameron, cartel claims, class action, class action funding, collective litigation, cost shifting, european class action, fee shifting, foris, hodges, ilf, IMF, international class action, litigation funder, litigation funding, loser pays, Meincke, netherlands, omni bridgeway, private litigation funder, schreiber, vaughn walker, wieling on December 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This is part II of a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. For the introduction, see part I posted yesterday. Who’s Paying? New Developments in Funding Professor Christopher Hodges, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford/Erasmus University (and a co-sponsor and co-founder of the conference) [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session I – The Challenge of Mass Communications
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, Uncategorized, tagged aggregated action, class action, collective action, dexia, dutch class action, european class action, globalization, international class action, mass action, mass communication, PR, public relations, taco bell on December 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation was even better than advertised. It was an engaging and enlightened gathering of the world’s top experts in the areas of class, collective, and mass litigation. And what better environment to have a conference on developments in international law than at the beautiful and historic Raad [...]
Which Side Would Hemingway Pick? Collective Redress Battles Privacy Rights in Spain
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged ADICAE, BBVA, collective action, collective action notice, Data Protection Act, european class action, european collective action, international class action, opt in, spain, spanish, spanish class action on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Berta Baz published this article yesterday in Money Market UK, which may be of interest anyone who tracks developments in class and collective actions abroad. The article discusses the tension between a collective action notice procedure and the Spanish Data Protection Act. According to the article, a Madrid court issued an order requiring the Spanish bank BBVA to produce electronic customer data [...]
UK Facing Identity Crisis in Class Action Debate?
Posted in Class Action Legislation, Class Action News, class action reform, International Class Action Law, tagged class action reform, european class action, International Class Action Law, opt out collective action, uk class actions, UK collective action on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone interested in curious in an outsider’s critique of the U.S. class action system should be following the debate over the adoption of an opt-out collective action scheme in the U.K. Opponents of opt-out collective actions point to the “looniness” of the American system as a reason why not to adopt a similar scheme. Proponents [...]
EU Stakeholders Debate Consumer Mass Actions
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged consumer class action, consumer collective action, consumer mass action, european class action, european union on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
International law firm Pinset Masons’ blog Out-law.com has an interesting article today on the potential for the implementation of a collective redress system for consumer claims in the European Union. The article addresses two reports summarizing hearings and comments received by the European Commission on the potential adoption of an EU-wide consumer collective action procedure. The [...]
Class Actions Finally Come to Italy
Posted in International Class Action Law, tagged european class action, International Class Action Law, italian class action, italy class action on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Securities Docket post today tipped me off to this Reuters article discussing the enactment of “Italy’s first law establishing class actions.” The law will take effect January 2010 and will apply only to conduct occuring after the law’s effective date. At first, I wasn’t sure whether this April 1, 2008, ClassActionBlawg article announcing Italy’s first class action law was [...]
Word of Advice for European Class Action Reformers?
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged class action reform, european class action, european class action reform, International Class Action Law on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Laptop Legal‘s “Class Action Thought for the Day” looks to West’s “Headnote of the Day” as food for thought for those considering the expansion of class actions in Europe and the former Soviet Union: Purpose of a class action is to simplify the resolution of complex litigation, not complicate it. Ah, if only West headnotes [...]
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Finland’s Class Action Law a Success Although Never Once Used
Posted in Class Action Trends, Commentary, International Class Action Law, tagged capitalism, class action reform, consumer class action, consumer protection, european class action, free market, international class action, tort reform on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have previously commented on various class action reforms being considered or implemented in Europe. These reforms and the debate surrounding them shed an interesting light on US class action law because proposed reforms are inevitably compared to the US class action procedure. On one hand, US class action procedure provides the model for the [...]
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