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Comment: UK mass antitrust claims regime back on track after skirting top court's funding block

By Simon Zekaria ( February 16, 2024, 14:25 GMT | Comment) -- UK mass claimants seem to be adroitly navigating the new litigation funding landscape for opt-out competition-law collective actions, a regime that had seemed to be at a dead end after a ruling in the country's top court last year. Claimants and their funders have been comforted by proposed legislative changes now going through Parliament, and there have been early wins in three cases where revised arrangements have already been approved by competition judges, with the latest coming just yesterday in a suit against Meta Platforms.The UK’s antitrust collective action regime was roiled last summer by a Supreme Court ruling that litigation-funding agreements underpinning much of it are unenforceable — but claimants and their funders have reason to hope they can hurdle the challenge....

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