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Beyond settlements and judgments: ensuring redress actually reaches claimants

Dippy Singh — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:21:00 +0000

The ability to distribute funds to successful claimants is a critical part of the collective actions process, writes Jade Tess Weiner of Angeion Group International.

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Battle plan for economic loss compensation in France

Robert Li — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:06:51 +0000

Fieldfisher Paris lawyers Lucile Meriguet and Claire Havet detail the steps, evidentiary burdens and challenges when claiming for economic loss before the French courts.

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“Troubling” report reveals barriers to UK collective settlement take-up rates

Dippy Singh — Tue, 13 May 2025 11:35:47 +0000

Privacy concerns and low understanding of the legal process are the main drivers preventing people from making a claim in a UK collective action settlement – while funders fare better than lawyers when it comes to public perception.

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Cut down by CrowdStrike

andras.tokai — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

CDR talks to funding professionals, and litigation and tech lawyers on probably the largest global IT outage to be caused by human error, and examines the disputes risks and other takeaways to emanate from it. For many people across the globe on Friday (19 July) the Earth may as well have stood still, as a […]

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Funders flocking to ISDS?

andras.tokai — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

CDR obtains perspective from the third-party funding industry on the particular attractions of ISDS, as well as its risks, drawbacks and likely future trends. News of the UK’s formal withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) last week has once again put investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) under the spotlight. The concept of ISDS is closely […]

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Portland portrays UK and US class-action attitudes

andras.tokai — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The UK public still trails its US counterparts in class actions but exhibits increasing awareness of them, with many willing to participate if directly affected and accepting the necessity of third-party funders, according to Portland’s latest class-action report.

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Global Class Actions Symposium: More action, more questions

andras.tokai — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most dynamic areas of dispute resolution, class actions present plenty of unanswered questions for the courts and legislators to clear up, according to speakers at this week’s ICLG.com Global Class Actions Symposium.

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