Download or read book Cross Border Class Actions written by Arnaud Nuyts and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether with regard to mass torts, civil-rights claims or as a means of private enforcement of antitrust and other regulatory policies: Collective redress of civil claims has been gaining in importance in Europe and worldwide. Long associated with the American model of class actions, an increasing number of EU Member States have made their own attempts at collective redress institutions. At the same time, the amendment of the Brussels I Regulation has shied away from dealing with the cross-border aspects of collective redress. In this book, a worldwide group of distinguished experts in private international law, civil procedure and regulatory law evaluate the problems of cross-border collective redress and provide proposals for a "European way" appropriate for the twenty-first century. This very topical work is, thus, indispensable for practitioners, academics, lobbyists and institutional agents.
Download or read book Class Actions in Privacy Law written by Ignacio N. Cofone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class actions in privacy law are rapidly growing as a legal vehicle for citizens around the world to hold corporations liable for privacy violations. Current and future developments in these class actions stand to shift the corporate liability landscape for companies that interact with people’s personal information. Privacy class actions are at the intersection of civil litigation, privacy law, and data protection. Developments in privacy class actions raise complex issues of substantive law as well as challenges to the established procedures governing class action litigation. Their outcomes are integral to the evolution of privacy law and data protection law across jurisdictions. This book brings together established scholars in privacy law, data protection law, and collective litigation to offer a detailed perspective on the present and future of collective litigation for privacy claims. Taking a comparative approach, this book incorporates considerations from consumer protection law, procedural law, cross-border litigation, tort law, and data protection law, which are key to understanding the development of privacy class actions. In doing so, it offers an analysis of the novel challenges they pose for courts, regulatory agencies, scholars, and litigators, together with their potential solutions.
Download or read book Class Actions and Government written by Rachael Mulheron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government, in all of its guises, plays a significant, controversial, and sometimes hidden, role in class actions reform and litigation.
Download or read book Global Class Actions and Cross Border Collective Redress written by S.I. Strong and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written about the advantages and disadvantages of large-scale litigation and arbitration from a public policy perspective, relatively little has been written about how parties can affect the resolution of mass disputes as a matter of contract, particularly in cases involving parties from several different countries. This chapter therefore considers whether and to what extent standard contractual devices, including choice of law agreements, choice of court agreements and arbitration agreements, can be used in cases involving large-scale international legal injuries. The discussion begins by considering the various ways that large-scale disputes can arise, since different fact patterns require different types of contractual responses, then outlines the kinds of problems that arise in cases of cross-border collective redress, including those of a substantive, regulatory and procedural nature. The analysis then evaluates a variety of possible solutions to these problems, including those generated by the state as well as those generated by private parties. The latter discussion not only addresses procedural agreements (including waivers of mass claims) that arise on a pre-dispute basis, it also considers the possibility of obtaining consent to various procedures on a post-dispute basis, a technique that has long been said to be impossible but that is the only feasible option in certain fact patterns or legal regimes. In undertaking this analysis, this chapter challenges conventional wisdom suggesting that parties to large-scale international disputes are either unwilling or unable to create carefully tailored, mutually agreeable procedures through private contract measures. Instead, this discussion shows that it is in fact possible for parties to international commercial and investment disputes to adopt both pre-dispute and post-dispute agreements that reduce the time, cost and uncertainty associated with global class actions and cross-border collective redress, thereby avoiding the numerous problems associated with contemporary litigation practice.
Download or read book Overview of Class Actions written by Maria Luisa Chiarella and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumers and users are daily involved in commercial practices and transactions that can end up not pacifically. We buy items and services, we travel, we use public services and vehicles and we enter into contracts with banks, insurance and financial services companies. The disputes arising from these everyday life events need collective remedies which may facilitates access to justice by those whose rights have been violated by one and the same professional. A class action allows a number of consumers to bring a case together before the Court to obtain compensation for a damage caused by the same professional. It is a lawsuit brought by a group of claimants, which allows them to enforce their rights collectively where they would not have done on an individual basis because of the cost, the risks and the time that legal proceedings entail. This paper analyzes the peculiarities of this kind of litigation, both in general and on a European perspective; then it tackles: the archetype of U.S., Italian class actions rules and cross-border litigations issues.
Download or read book Jurisdiction and Cross Border Collective Redress written by Alexia Pato and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, the rise in cross-border law violations has harmed numerous victims around the globe. The damages are often dispersed and low-level. As a result, the private enforcement gap has deepened and collective redress represents an interesting procedural instrument that is able to provide effective access to justice. This book analyses thoroughly the dominant collective redress models adopted in the EU. Data from 13 Member States has been catalogued and categorised. The research mainly focuses on the consumer law field but frequent references to financial and data protection-related cases are made. The dominant collective redress models are then studied from a private international law perspective. In particular, the book highlights the current mismatch between collective redress on the one hand, and rules on international jurisdiction on the other. Additionally, it notes that barriers to cross-border litigation remain significant for victims and their representatives. The unprecedented empirical study included in this book confirms that statement. Observing that EU measures have not satisfactorily lowered those barriers, the author proposes the creation of a new head of jurisdiction for cases of international collective redress. This book will be of interest to private international law scholars, researchers, students, legal practitioners, judges and policy-makers. It is a reference point for those with an interest in cross-border collective redress in particular, and private international law in general.
Download or read book Jurisdiction and Cross border Collective Redress written by Alexia Pato and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In recent decades, the rise in cross-border law violations has harmed numerous victims around the globe. The damages are often dispersed and low-level. As a result, the private enforcement gap has deepened and collective redress represents an interesting procedural instrument that is able to provide effective access to justice. This book analyses thoroughly the dominant collective redress models adopted in the EU. Data from 13 Member States has been catalogued and categorised. The research mainly focuses on the consumer law field but frequent references to financial and data protection-related cases are made. The dominant collective redress models are then studied from a private international law perspective. In particular, the book highlights the current mismatch between collective redress on the one hand, and rules on international jurisdiction on the other. Additionally, it notes that barriers to cross-border litigation remain significant for victims and their representatives. The unprecedented empirical study included in this book confirms that statement. Observing that EU measures have not satisfactorily lowered those barriers, the author proposes the creation of a new head of jurisdiction for cases of international collective redress. This book will be of interest to private international law scholars, researchers, students, legal practitioners, judges and policy-makers. It is a reference point for those with an interest in cross-border collective redress in particular, and private international law in general."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Download or read book Class Actions in Relation to Cross border Pollution written by H. U. Jessurun d'Oliveira and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Class Actions in Europe written by Alan Uzelac and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago, class actions were considered to be a textbook example of American exceptionalism; many of their main features were assumed to be incompatible with the culture of the civil law world. However, the tide is changing; while there are now trends in the USA toward limiting or excluding class actions, notorious cases like Dieselgate are moving more and more European jurisdictions to extend the reach of their judicial collective redress mechanisms. For many new fans of class actions, collective redress has become a Holy Grail of sorts, a miraculous tool that will rejuvenate national systems of civil justice and grant them unprecedented power. Still, while the introduction of various forms of representative action has virtually become a fashion, it is anything but certain that attempting to transplant American-style class action will be successful. European judicial structures and legal culture(s) are fundamentally different, which poses a considerable challenge. This book investigates whether class actions in Europe are indeed a Holy Grail or just another wrong turn in the continuing pursuit of just and effective means of protecting the rights of citizens and businesses. It presents both positive and critical perspectives, supplemented by case studies on the latest collectivization trends in Europe’s national civil justice systems. The book also shares the experiences of some non-European jurisdictions that have developed promising hybrid forms of collective redress, such as Canada, Brazil, China, and South Africa. In closing, a selection of topical international cases that raise interesting issues regarding the effectiveness of class actions in an international context are studied and discussed.
Download or read book Cross Border Torts written by Wyatt Pickett and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For Canadian litigation lawyers who are confronted with the question of whether to sue in the U.S. or in Canada, finally here is a book which offers guidance for evaluating the best forum and identifying the relevant factors.
Download or read book Class and Group Actions in Arbitration written by Bernard Hanotiau and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several decades ago, a typical arbitration would involve one claimant against one respondent. Over the years, more and more cases involve several claimants against several respondents. Today, one third of all international ICC arbitrations seem to involve multiparty cases, multi-contract cases involving multiple contracts, multiple parties. The evolution has continued and the debate today is whether it would be possible for a class of people in the same situation or a group of citizens having the same interest to start one single arbitration procedure as a group or as a class. This publication examines the complex issues involved in class or group arbitration on a comparative law basis. Is there a place for such proceedings within the framework of the arbitration process? Class action procedures, as developed in the United States court system and more recently in Canada, are almost nonexistent in Europe. The European Commission has advocated collective redress as an important means of access to justice but class actions have found little enthusiasm in the Members States. The book highlights the lessons which have been learned from the experience of cases in the US and in Europe. What does the future hold for class, collective and mass arbitrations? Are they a marginal phenomenon or has their potential yet to be realized? What are possible solutions to the issues that have been encountered? Can we expect to see more of such arbitrations in the future? Written by arbitrators, academics and practitioners, this Dossier will provide the answers to these questions and many more.
Download or read book Cross border Litigation written by Kenneth Clayton MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defending Class Actions in Canada written by and published by CCH Canadian Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending Class Actions in Canada is aimed at businesses that may become defendants in class actions in Canada and the lawyers who defend them. Companies doing business in this country now have an intense interest in the proliferation of class actions and the risks posed by that development to their operations. This book not only outlines all of the steps in such actions and the law that governs them, it provides a useful analysis on a national scale of the most important developments and predictions of future trends.
Download or read book World Class Actions written by Paul G. Karlsgodt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I of the book provides a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction survey of the class action, group, collective, derivative, and other representative action procedures available across the globe. Each chapter is written from a local perspective, by an attorney familiar with the laws, best practices, legal climate, and culture of the jurisdiction.
Download or read book Resolving Mass Disputes written by Christopher Hodges and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising a series of questions on resolving mass disputes, and fuelling future debate, this book will provide a challenging and thought-provoking read for law academics, practitioners and policy-makers.
Download or read book U S style Class Actions in Europe written by Linda A. Willett and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overcoming the Practical Obstacles in Cross border Litigation written by Canadian Boreal Initiative and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
