Delivering Collective Redress
Subtitle: New Technologies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781509918546
Subjects: Class actions (civil procedure); Citizen suits (civil procedure); Technological innovations, europe; Law, european union countries
Description: This book charts the transformative shifts in techniques that seek to deliver collective redress, especially for mass consumer claims in Europe. It shows how traditional approaches of class litigation (old technology) have been eclipsed by the new technology of regulatory redress techniques and consumer ombudsmen. It describes a series of these techniques, each illustrated by leading examples taken from a 2016 pan-EU research project. It then undertakes a comparative evaluation of each technique against key criteria, such as effective outcomes, speed, and cost. The book reveals major transformations in European legal systems, shows the overriding need to view legal systems from fresh viewpoints, and to devise a new integrated model