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Court of Appeal’s decision enables Trucks class action to proceed in the Competition Appeal Tribunal

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In a reasoned order in January 2025, the Court of Appeal refused DAF Trucks permission to appeal against certification in the Trucks collective proceedings, deferring to the discretion of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in...more

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Justin Le Patourel v BT Group Plc: Failure for the UK’s first opt-out class action

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In its 19 December 2024 judgment, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) unanimously rejected Mr Le Patourel’s excessive pricing claim against BT. This was the UK’s first opt-out collective action to proceed to trial, and will...more

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UK Supreme Court: Litigation Funding Agreements Are Damages-Based Agreements

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On 26 July 2023, the UK Supreme Court handed down a judgment that will cause serious disruption (at least in the short term) to the litigation funding market. In R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) v Competition...more

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The Evolving Climates in the US and UK for Environmental Damage Claims

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The November 2022 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) spotlighted the political and diplomatic challenges of compensating damages caused by climate change. At the same time, fundamental questions...more

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Bound by prior admissions: Court of Appeal upholds the CAT’s abuse of process judgment against Truck Cartelists

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The Court of Appeal has strongly dismissed an appeal against the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (“CAT’s”) decision that it would be an abuse of process for certain truck manufacturers to seek to challenge the facts recorded in...more

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Court of Appeal broadly upholds the CAT's judgment in Phenytoin and clarifies "excessive pricing" test - Authorities can't stick...

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On 10 March 2020 the Court of Appeal upheld the Competition Appeal Tribunal's (CAT) quashing of the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) decision that Pfizer and Flynn Pharma (Flynn) had abused their dominant positions...more

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The UK Court of Appeal Overturns CAT and Imposes Agency Discretion on Excessive Price Benchmark

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On March 10, 2020, the England and Wales Court of Appeal (CoA) handed down its judgment in the appeals by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Flynn Pharma Ltd. against a June 2018 Competition Appeal...more

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April 2019: Class Actions in the UK: Groundbreaking $18 Billion Court of Appeal Decision Opens the Door and Signals Encouragement...

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On 16 April 2018, Quinn Emanuel secured a significant victory when the English Court of Appeal delivered a landmark judgment in the case of Walter Hugh Merricks v. MasterCard Inc & Ors, in which Quinn Emanuel acts for Mr...more

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Court of Appeal restores £14 billion collective damages action

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In a landmark ruling the Court of Appeal has given another chance to a £14 billion class action against MasterCard. The first case of its kind, brought on behalf of 46 million UK consumers, stalled two years ago when the...more

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