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NLJ this week: Collective actions with an anticlimactic ending

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07 February 2025
Issue: 8103 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Collective action , Competition , ADR , Procedure & practice , Litigation funding
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How will you spend your £4 Mastercard pay-out? Professor Dominic Regan, NLJ columnist, AKA 'The Insider', writes that the result of the collective action once put at £10bn and later settled for £200m renders it a ‘pointless exercise’. 

Regan muses on the trend for group actions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal as well as witness statements and alternative dispute resolution. He is delighted by a ‘succinct and crystal clear’ decision. 

Regan also has the latest on judicial promotions and relays a practitioner’s suggestion for a possible gamechanger in inheritance disputes.
Issue: 8103 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Collective action , Competition , ADR , Procedure & practice , Litigation funding
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