Despite the naysayers of years ago, class actions procedures continue to evolve and expand in Europe.  A November 11, 2019 online article by two expert Frenc...

Some years back, a few people (including me, in 2010) bucked conventional wisdom and predicted the rise of class actions in Europe. See, for example, my 2010...

Despite the many who said Europe would never allow class actions, it has happened, in varying ways and to varying degrees. The big news of late is a UK rulin...

A slightly dated (2015) but now free article comparing US and EU law on product liability is described in a January 29, 2017 post at the TortsProfBlog. The i...

The UK Supreme Court last week ruled against a party challenging an obligation to pay fees under ATE agreements and conditional fee agreements. The challenge...

A victory for the plaintiff in a UK in a case that US lawyers would refer to as an asbestos premises case. The case was covered before in detail in a July 22...

An update on part of the asbestos compensation dynamic in Great Britain. In the UK, most compensation claims are asserted against employers, as opposed to as...

LAW360 (subscription required) includes an informative post about EU efforts to step up consumer protection efforts. The plans are laid out in EU memo which...

The EU follows the precautionary approach when regulating use of actually or potentially "toxic" substances used in products. Therefore, manufacturers, consu...

UK "legal reform" is now in effect. Many lawyers lacking specialty niches will now experience the commoditization already experienced by many doctors lackin...

The UK Bribery Act has been much discussed and feared by some businesses. SNR Denton this week published this new advice related to the latest government pro...

This popular press article provides a fair amount of detail on a ruling in Malta related to the mesothelioma death of a dockworker. The claims at issue were ...

Spain. As readers may recall, its Supreme Court last year approved the use of contingent fees, as described in this prior post. More recently, asbestos liti...

As it happens, I’m speaking this week at an asbestos litigation conference. Yesterday’s topic was asbestos bankruptcies and today’s topic is international a...

Please look to the left under the heading “Eternit” for prior articles on the combined civil and criminal trial in Italy  involving former executives of Eter...

Back to Europe for the day. The House of Commons is anticipating discussions on pleural plaques vis a vis the apparent path of Scotland affirmatively acting ...

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This article from a British newspaper reports that the UK government is trying to cut a deal with unions 1) to pay for more scientific research on cancer, an...

Insurers have filed an appeal of their loss on the pleural  plaques case in Scotland. See this BBC article , which essentially repeats this press release fro...

Who was the last person to assure you that Europe would never entertain class actions ?  Perhaps you should send them an email and invite them to attend this...