BIICL Publishes New Text On Class Action Regimes In Europe

In 2012 the British Institute of International and Comparative Law ("BIICL") was awarded a grant by the European Commission to conduct a study on class action mechanisms in different European Union Member States (which are referred to as collective redress regimes in Europe). In March 2015 BIICL published its long awaited work Collective Redress in Europe – Why and How?  This text is a comprehensive review of class action regimes and issues in Europe. 

One of the chapters – Cross-Border Actions for Collective Redress – Some Lessons from Canada – provides a distinctly Canadian perspective on these issues. The co-authors John P. Brown and Brandon Kain consider the European Commission's policy paper on collective redress regimes, which was published in June 2013 after a lengthy, contentious, controversial and tortuous political process. The policy paper contains proposals for addressing the violation of rights granted under European Union law including a non-binding