Dutch Class Actions Team Publishes Two Commentaries On Recent Class Actions

The recent edition of the legal journal on Dutch civil procedural law JBPr contains two commentaries on recent case law of members of the Dutch class actions team. One case concerns an allegedly unlawful fee charged by energy supplier Vattenfall, while the other case revolves around the Dutch State's obligations with regard to the living conditions in shelters for asylum seekers who have recently arrived to the Netherlands.

Marit Bosselaar, Irene Bloemen and Peter Sprietsma from the Dutch class actions team wrote commentaries on two recent judgments in class actions cases in the Netherlands, which were published in the procedural law journal Jurisprudentie Burgerlijk Procesrecht. The contributions focus on several aspects of the Dutch Collective Damages in Class Action Act (Dutch Acronym: WAMCA), such as the temporal applicability of the WAMCA, the standing of an interest organisation, the admissibility of claims on behalf of several different sub-classes in a