A claim said to be worth $14 billion is up for a hearing next week in the UK Supreme Court.

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

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

Despite the many who said Europe would never allow class actions, it has happened, in varying ways and to varying degrees. The big news o...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 re...

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