Netherlands: Class Actions

On 22 January 2025, the District Court of The Hague rendered its judgment in the class action case of Greenpeace Nederland v. the Dutch State.

Today, on 12 November 2024, the Court of Appeal of The Hague ruled in appeal in the Dutch climate case between Friends of the Earth Netherlands...

Class actions in the Netherlands, or collective actions, have become an increasingly important tool for individuals and organizations seeking to address large-scale legal issues.

Earlier this month, the European Parliament announced that it adopted a resolution with recommendations to the European Commission on responsible private litigation funding.

Marit Bosselaar and Peter Sprietsma from the class actions team wrote a commentary on the ongoing class action against KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM)...

The Dutch claim foundation Milieudefensie recently published a letter addressed to 29 large companies in the Netherlands in which it demands that the companies take a frontline role...

An interesting judgment of the Court of Appeal (Gerechtshof) of Amsterdam of 17 January 2012 shows that Dutch courts have jurisdiction to deal with international mass claim settlements.

Are complex, lengthy and expensive class actions an effective way of resolving global tort claims or would it be better if we skipped right to settlement negotiations and then asked the court to approve the settlement agreement?

On 17 January 2012, the Converium collective settlements were declared binding by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. As noted in our Update of 18 November 2010, in an interim ruling the Court had preliminarily assumed jurisdiction over a request to declare two international collective settlements binding in a case in which none of the potentially liable parties and only some of the potential claimants are domiciled in the Netherlands.