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Comment: Future of UK’s nascent class-action lawsuit regime hangs in the balance

By Simon Zekaria ( June 2, 2022, 10:20 GMT | Comment) -- Truckmaker DAF’s success in getting the UK’s top court to judge the legality of mass-lawsuit funding has reopened risk to the still-infant legal regime and litigation financiers that drive it. The ongoing dispute also sheds light on motivations behind the ballooning funding industry, as a pipeline of cases on behalf of large business and consumer classes go through the UK’s specialized competition court.The UK's revamped class-action lawsuit regime may become toothless as mass claimants and their financiers could see the funding agreements that underpin their lawsuits invalidated by the country's highest legal authority....

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