Book contents
- The Cambridge International Handbook of Class Actions
- The Cambridge Handbook of Class Actions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The United States
- Part II The Americas
- Part III Europe
- 9 English Systems of Multiparty Litigation
- 10 Class Actions in Switzerland
- 11 Class Actions in Belgium
- 12 The New Italian Regulation on Class Actions
- 13 Collective Litigation in German Civil Procedure
- 14 Class Action à la française
- 15 The Dutch Mechanisms for Collective Redress: Solid, and Excellent within Reach
- Part IV Asia and the South Pacific
- Part V Middle East and Africa
9 - English Systems of Multiparty Litigation
from Part III - Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2021
- The Cambridge International Handbook of Class Actions
- The Cambridge Handbook of Class Actions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The United States
- Part II The Americas
- Part III Europe
- 9 English Systems of Multiparty Litigation
- 10 Class Actions in Switzerland
- 11 Class Actions in Belgium
- 12 The New Italian Regulation on Class Actions
- 13 Collective Litigation in German Civil Procedure
- 14 Class Action à la française
- 15 The Dutch Mechanisms for Collective Redress: Solid, and Excellent within Reach
- Part IV Asia and the South Pacific
- Part V Middle East and Africa
Summary
In England and Wales there are four types of collective redress or multiparty claim: (1) test case litigation, supported by the staying of related individual actions; (2) consolidation or joinder, that is, procedural adjustment to accommodate multiparty actions; the result is that multiple parties are coupled together in a single case; (3) opt-in claims coordinated as a Group Litigation Order; and (4) representative proceedings. As for (4), there are two manifestations. First there is a general mechanism, not restricted to any particular context, but aggregated damages have not been available and the relief is normally confined to declarations or injunctions.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Class ActionsAn International Survey, pp. 153 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021