There has been significant growth in U.K. class actions (often referred to in the U.K. as “collective actions”) in recent years. As has been the case in the U.S.—where class actions have been a mainstay of litigation for decades—that growth in claims has been fuelled by claimant-side law firms and associated third party funders.
With those increased claimant-led efforts and litigation funding arrangements has come a mixture of treatment by the U.K. courts, as the courts establish parameters on the funding, “carriage” (i.e. which claimants’ law firm has lead responsibility in a case) and case management in this relatively new area of law.
