Law firms and litigation funders are vying to take advantage of an increase in collective redress procedures that new EU legislation on group litigation is expected to generate.
Adopted in the wake of the Dieselgate emissions scandal, the EU’s representative actions directive requires all 27 EU countries to put in place a legal framework that allows nonprofit entities such as consumer organisations to file cross-border collective actions in mass harm situations, while countries that do not yet have a group litigation procedure in their national laws will need to introduce at least one.
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