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UK Government To Legislate On Litigation Funding To Mitigate The Effects Of The 2023 Supreme Court Decision In PACCAR

Much anticipated announcement from the UK Government confirms that it will be taking legislative action to "mitigate the impact of the 2023 Supreme Court judgment in PACCAR" and to "implement proportionate regulation of third-party litigation funding agreements".

United Kingdom Litigation

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Dechert

Finishing The Build: Private Damages Class Action To Extend Competition Enforcement In Housebuilding Sector

The recent announcement of a proposed collective action for damages against housebuilders provides further evidence of a paradigm change in the competition law landscape in the United Kingdom ("UK").

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Mayer Brown

Certification Tracker Of UK Competition Class Actions (CPO Applications) Filed At The Competition Appeal Tribunal

The graphic below tracks the number of competition class actions (CPO applications) filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) since the introduction of a new 'opt-out' regime in the UK...

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Supreme Court Reshapes UK Competition Class Actions Landscape

In only its third decision on the rapidly evolving UK competition class action regime, the UK Supreme Court's decision ([2025] UKSC 48) in the FX class action...

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Banking Litigation Yearbook And Broader Disputes Yearbook For 2025

United Kingdom Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Lead Generation Strategies For Mass Tort Law Firms: How To Scale Client Intake Effectively

United Kingdom Media & IT

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IR Global

Opt-Out Class Actions Scotland: Consultation Goes Live

United Kingdom Litigation

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Burness Paull

Outsourcing Spotlight – Autumn/Winter 2025

United Kingdom Employment

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Travers Smith LLP

Biannual Banking Litigation Update (Autumn 2025) (Video)

United Kingdom Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Certification Tracker Of UK Competition Class Actions (CPO Applications) Filed At The Competition Appeal Tribunal

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Commercial Litigation Podcast Series – Episode 33: General Update (Podcast)

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Class Actions Radar: United Kingdom – Competition

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Class Actions Radar: United Kingdom – General (England And Wales)

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

The Beginning Of The End? The UK Government Announces A Review Of The Country's Antitrust Class Action Regime

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Steptoe LLP

COP30: What Were The Key Outcomes?

Worldwide Environment

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Travers Smith LLP

Employment Winter Newsletter 2025

United Kingdom Employment

TS

Travers Smith LLP

What Differences Can Corporates Leverage Between US And UK Capital Markets? (Video)

United Kingdom Finance

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Employer Compliance Essentials: Navigating The UK Right To Work Check Scheme (Podcast)

United Kingdom Immigration

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Mayer Brown

Legislation To Reverse PACCAR Decision And Regulate Litigation Funding Agreements Accelerated

United Kingdom Litigation

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Lewis Silkin

Supreme Court Issues Its Decision In Hopcraft Motor Finance Commission Appeal

The three conjoined appeals considered the sale of motor finance to financially unsophisticated consumers each of which had bought a second-hand car from dealerships which also brokered their financing

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Privy Council Abrogates So-called "Shareholder Rule" Under English Law: Companies Can Assert Privilege Against Their Shareholders

The decision will be significant for shareholder litigation, including securities class actions, as it will mean that shareholders generally have no entitlement to production...

United Kingdom Commercial

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Litigation Developments: England And Wales – Quarterly Update

Welcome to our latest quarterly bulletin (our first as Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer) which contains updates on commercial litigation developments over the past three months...

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Litigation Funding - Putting A Price On Justice?

Litigation funding, where third parties fund claims in return for a fee, has grown significantly in the past decade particularly relating to class action lawsuits, commercial disputes and personal injury cases.

United Kingdom Litigation

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Devonshires

Litigation Funding Overhaul In The UK: CJC's Final Report Explained

United Kingdom Litigation

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Gowling WLG

Court Of Appeal Allows Funders To Be Paid Ahead Of Class Members In Collective Actions

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Macfarlanes LLP

Private Damages Activity Escalates Across Key Jurisdictions

European Union Anti-trust

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A&O Shearman

A Class Act: Is England A New Battleground In High-Value Multi-Claimant Actions?

United Kingdom Litigation

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Dechert

Merricks v Mastercard: Competition Appeal Tribunal Approves Settlement, But Issues Of Distribution Reserved For Future Judgment

United Kingdom Litigation

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Milbank LLP

Litigation Funding: To Regulate Or Not To Regulate?

European Union Litigation

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Travers Smith LLP

Nearly A Decade After U.S.-Style Collective Actions Emerged, Opt-Out Lawsuits Are On The Rise

United Kingdom Litigation

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Crowell & Moring LLP

Litigation Radar 2025

United Kingdom Litigation

LS

Lewis Silkin

European Insurance Market Report – FINEX And D&O Market

European Union Finance

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WTW

Class Actions Comparative Guide

United Kingdom Litigation

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Eversheds Sutherland

Nearly A Decade After U.S.-Style Collective Actions Emerged, Opt-Out Lawsuits Are On The Rise

Uncertainty surrounds UK collective actions after a 2023 Supreme Court ruling deemed certain litigation funding agreements unenforceable. Legislative and judicial reviews, including a key 2025 report, will shape future funding and regulatory frameworks for opt-out cases.

United Kingdom Litigation

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Crowell & Moring LLP

Litigation Radar 2025

This guide aims to provide you with an in-depth understanding of the evolving landscape of litigation, highlighting significant legal decisions, proposed reforms and the role of emerging technologies.

United Kingdom Litigation

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Lewis Silkin

European Insurance Market Report – FINEX And D&O Market

Availability of abundant capacity continues to drive competition in the Western European D&O market. The Influx of new capacity beginning in early 2022 still creates competition and yielded rate deceleration throughout 2022, 2023 and 2024.

European Union Finance

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WTW

Class Actions Comparative Guide

Class Actions Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of UK, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

United Kingdom Litigation

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Eversheds Sutherland

Navigating ESG Risks: How To Protect Your Business In A Changing World

United Kingdom Commercial

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Cripps

Where Are They Now: Litigation Funding And Arbitration Updates

Recent developments in litigation and arbitration highlight ongoing uncertainty over Litigation Funding Agreements (LFAs) following the PACCAR decision, which invalidated many LFAs. Meanwhile, amendments to the Arbitration Act 1996 are moving forward, excluding international treaties from the new bill.

United Kingdom Litigation

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Tweet-Related Crypto Class Action To Proceed, But Faces Significant Headwinds

The Tribunal partially upheld a class action against cryptocurrency exchanges for allegedly colluding to delist Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, while striking out a key claim on "loss of a chance."

United Kingdom Technology

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Macfarlanes LLP

2024: An Important Year For UK Collective Actions

There has been significant growth in U.K. class actions (often referred to in the U.K. as "collective actions") in recent years. As has been the case in the U.S.—where class actions...

Worldwide Litigation

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Winston & Strawn LLP

UK & Europe Market Highlights, March 2024

The UK litigation funding market gets a boost from proposed legislation to reverse case law...

United Kingdom Technology

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IR Global

Class/Collective Actions: The Importance Of Businesses Understanding Their Exposure

United Kingdom Litigation

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Mayer Brown

Court Strikes Out Securities Class Action Brought As A Representative Action Under CPR 19.8

United Kingdom Litigation

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Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong

GB D&O Market Update

United Kingdom Commercial

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WTW

Empowering Judgment Creditors: The Impact Of Lakatamia Shipping Company v Tseng Yu Hsia And Other (Podcast)

United Kingdom Litigation

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Harneys

Litigation Funding: What Is It Good For? Apparently Something Part II

United Kingdom Litigation

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Competition Consumer Rights Class Action Challenges BT's £1.3billion Overcharging Of Landlines

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Spencer West

A Song Of Rights And Ire

United Kingdom IP

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Simons Muirhead & Burton

Court Of Appeal Clarifies Broad Right Of Appeal In Competition Collective Proceedings And Rejects General Prohibition On Communications Between Defendants And Class Members

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Competition Collective Proceedings: Broad Right Of Appeal And No General Prohibition On Communications Between Defendants And Class Members

United Kingdom Anti-trust

HS

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Commercial Litigation Podcast Series – Episode 22: General Update

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Representative Actions: Court Of Appeal Decision Gives Go Ahead For Secret Commissions Claim, But Suggests Only Limited Issues May Be Dealt With On "Opt-Out" Basis

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Antitrust/Competition

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Steptoe LLP

Barclays Bank UK v Terry And The Previously Hypothetical "Bifurcated Process"

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herrington Carmichael

A Litigator's Yearbook And A Broader Disputes Yearbook For 2023

United Kingdom Litigation

HS

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Banking Litigation Yearbook And Broader Disputes Yearbook For 2023

United Kingdom Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

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DLA Piper UK LLP

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DLA Piper UK LLP

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DLA Piper UK LLP

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