Group litigation has always sounded such a good idea: instead of the courts dealing with many different actions commenced in different courts in different parts of the country, with different claimants competing to bring different claims against a defendant arising out of the same circumstances, the court would first permit, then encourage and finally insist on the actions being grouped together in one court.
This would result in a saving of court time, it would allow litigants to pool their resources to bring litigation that they could not afford on their own and would reduce the risk of inconsistent conclusions being reached by different judges. To regulate and assist this process the Civil Procedure Rules make specific provision for group litigation orders (GLOs).
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