The U.K. government has proposed amendments to the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, including permitting the use of litigation funding agreements in competition cases.

This comes as a response to the Supreme Court’s judgment in a £2 billion collective action on price fixing, after the top court ruled in July that damages-based agreements by litigation funders in competition cases are unenforceable.

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