Pre-Transposition Consultation Process
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has launched
a public consultation on the transposition of an EU Directive on
collective redress. A core aim of the snappily titled Directive on
representative actions for the protection of the collective
interests of consumers (Directive (EU) 2020/1828) is to ensure that
all EU Member States put in place a facility which provides redress
for consumers where a number of them are victims of the same
infringement of their rights, in a mass harm situation.
Law Reform Commission Consideration
It can be recalled that collective redress was previously
examined by the Law Reform Commission which published a
Consultation Paper on Multi-Party Litigation in 2003 and a
subsequent Report in 2005. The Report focused on the potential for
reform of private multi-party litigation in Ireland. In its
Report, the Commission recommended the introduction of a procedure
to be called a
