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Comment: Amazon case ruling paves way for early resolution of ‘carriage' disputes in UK collective claims

By Simon Zekaria ( February 13, 2024, 16:25 GMT | Comment) -- The UK competition court’s favoring of one mass claimant over another to sue Amazon over its “Buy Box” appears to cement an approach of resolving so-called “carriage disputes” at an early stage in future. The Competition Appeal Tribunal has said that dealing with carriage and certification of claims together hasn’t been successful and that sequencing them will streamline the process in terms of length and cost.Judges at the UK's specialist antitrust court broke new ground in the country's evolving regime for competition-law collective claims last week in picking consumer champion Robert Hammond over rival Julie Hunter to represent a class in suing Amazon over its "Buy Box" feature....

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