
How Portugal came to be a European class actions leader
Andrew Mizner
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Ahead of this year’s Global Class Actions Symposium in Lisbon, a leading practitioner tells CDR how Portugal became one of Europe’s main collective redress jurisdictions, but says that status is a double-edged sword.
Class actions are a relatively new phenomenon in Europe. A decade ago they were the preserve of the US, Canada, Australia and a handful of other countries, but were relatively unknown on the other side of the Atlantic.
The UK’s introduction of collective proc
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