Trends and Developments in Collective Redress and Class Actions

Our Group Actions and Competition team are delighted to have authored the ‘Trends and Developments’ section of Chambers & Partners’ Collective Redress & Class Actions 2025 Global Practice Guide.

As the collective proceedings regime in the UK remains in a state of flux with the outcome of the government’s consultation to be determined, we provide an overview of some of the recent key trends shaping the regime’s trajectory.

We address:

The contrasting decisions on excessive pricing claims in Le Patourel and Kent
Take-up of collective settlements and damages awards
The Tribunal’s supervisory jurisdiction, in relation to distribution of stakeholder entitlements
Certification and carriage disputes, and the implications of the Tribunal’s judgment in Riefa
The state of the funding market and the ongoing shadow cast by PACCAR
Beyond the CAT: developments in representative actions under CPR r.19.8, including the courts’ application of the same interest test, and attempted use of the bifurcated procedure posited in Lloyd v Google.

Read our article here.

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