An Inquiry Into the Swiss Class Action Regime and Learnings from the Australian Experience

ESG is a broad concept entailing several – or: many – aspects of sustainable conduct. Mass claims based on private law notions have long been an instrument in pursuing interests that would nowadays be dubbed to be part of the developing fie...

            Q: You are a Member of the European Parliament and are a key member of the Committee on Legal Affairs. Please give our readers some background about you and your political agenda.   A: Sure; I have been an MEP since 2009 and am...

The national provisions transposing the Representative Actions Directive should have been adopted and published by December 2022. Despite that, numerous Member States have failed to do so. The Workshop "Organisation and Design of Collective...

Recent case law developments in England suggest that it may be possible for the English Civil Procedure Rule 19.8 to be applied more broadly than has previously been countenanced, at least in recent history, with a wider interpretation bein...

England and WalesAnna DannreutherCase law Município de Mariana v BHP Group (UK) Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 951 The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in this case brought by 202,600 Brazilian claimants seeking compensation for damage c...