Funding Of Collective Redress Claims – The Latest Developments In Group Litigation

Collective redress claims are an established feature of the civil litigation landscape. The commonest mechanisms are representative claims and group litigation orders (GLOs). By definition they involve a number of claims so are not small or low value, but there is a wide range from GLOs involving a few hundred individuals to behemoths like the NOx emissions cases, which involved 13 separate GLOs of which four were selected as lead GLOs.

Even a small GLO will involve proactive case management and regular contact between the parties: large GLOs involve multiple applications and costs and case management conferences (CCMCs), including CCMCs built into the trial timetable. Woe betide the solicitors who cannot keep all the juggling balls in the air, as the rugby head injuries litigation has recently shown.