Topic: Class certification

Banks that rigged foreign exchange rates for specific currency trades also tacitly colluded on pricing strategies, affecting other trades between different customers and banks that were not part of the conspiracy, an expert economist has told the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal.

13 July 2021

An English law firm is bringing an opt-out class action claim on behalf of around one million consumers against a train operator that allegedly inflated ticket prices on the London to Brighton train route.

07 July 2021

The Road Haulage Association has offered to shave five years off its proposed claim period as it tries to convince the UK’s specialist competition tribunal to certify its collective action against members of the EU trucks cartel.

27 April 2021

The president of the UK’s specialist competition tribunal has warned that only one of the two competing collective actions pending against members of the EU trucks cartel will be allowed to proceed.

21 April 2021

Both of the proposed collective actions pending in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal against members of the EU trucks cartel are “manifestly unfit” for certification, counsel to the truck manufacturers has argued.

20 April 2021

A road hauliers’ trade association and a purposely-formed claims management company are facing off in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal as they each attempt to obtain class certification for their respective proposed collective proceedings against members of the EU trucks cartel.

19 April 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has vacated the certification of three classes of tuna purchasers alleging a price-fixing conspiracy after determining that a lower court failed to fully evaluate whether a large portion of class members ever suffered harm.

07 April 2021

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has all but confirmed it will certify the country’s first-ever competition class action claim, although Mastercard has asked the tribunal to limit the scope of damages being sought by proposed class representative Walter Merricks.

26 March 2021

Mastercard has confirmed to the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal that it does not oppose the certification of Walter Merricks’ competition damages claim in its entirety.

25 March 2021

The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal has delayed a class certification hearing relating to the EU roll-on roll-off shipping cartel to November over concerns that listing it earlier would leave some defendant counsel unable to attend.

19 March 2021