Class Actions in England and Wales provides essential reference for practitioners looking to bring or defend class action litigation in the courts of England and Wales. This is an increasingly important area of law and procedure, with growing numbers of high-value and high-profile claims being brought by large groups of claimants. This new work focuses in particular on the Group Litigation Order procedure, as well as the controversial mechanism for bringing competition claims on an opt-out basis introduced by the Consumer Rights Act 2015. The text also examines three specific types of class...

Essential reference on class actions and class action litigation in England & Wales covering various types of class action, procedures and funding, conduct, trial and settlement, drawing on applicable procedural rules, case law, comparative analysis and the authors own experience of class action litigation.