The efficiency of the US class action regime hinges upon a core procedural mechanism: the class representative. By permitting a large group of plaintiffs with typically modest claims to rely on a ...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed a class action application, after finding the representative had not “properly understood” the funding arrangements made with her own funder, ...

Nov 17 (Reuters) - New research crunching more than seven years of data from class actions has an unexpected takeaway: People are willing to serve as the public face of a lawsuit on behalf of others, ...

Discovery in civil litigation is intended to give all parties fair access to the evidence necessary to litigate the claims and allow for the trial to proceed on a full record of all the relevant ...