Full steam ahead for collective actions on behalf of train passengers as Tribunal grants certification – Anthony Maton, Nicola Boyle, Luke Streatfeild and Lucy Rigby discuss the judgment in the latest episode of Hausfeld’s #TheCollectiveCast. 

In this 7th episode of #TheCollectiveCast, Lesley Hannah, Lucy Rigby and Kio Gwilliam are joined by Liz Coll, the consumer champion and proposed class representative on the collective proceedings recently launched against Google on behalf of UK PlayStore users. Discussion focusses on Ms Coll's motivations for bringing the case, the role of private enforcement and collective redress when it comes to tackling the conduct of the technology giants and Google's recent appeal of the Commission's Android decision in the General Court.

The certification of an opt-out collective action on behalf of consumers against BT is the subject of discussion in this sixth episode of Hausfeld’s #TheCollectiveCast. Tune in to hear Anthony Maton, Nicola Boyle and Lucy Rigby discuss the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s recent judgment and the ramifications for other opt-out collective claims. 

In this 5th episode of #TheCollectiveCast, Hausfeld’s Anthony Maton, Nicola Boyle and Lucy Rigby review the UK’s first certification decision in an opt-out action, handed down by the Tribunal last week in Merricks v Mastercard, alongside another case pending before the Tribunal, that of Le Patourel v BT. Plenty to discuss as the country’s opt-out regime now begins to take flight.

In this fourth episode of #TheCollectiveCast, Anthony Maton, Lesley Hannah, Luke Streatfeild and Lucy Rigby discuss the collective proceedings launched recently against Apple by Dr Rachael Kent on behalf of UK App Store users, and take a look at the landscape for collective proceedings against technology giants more broadly.

In this third episode of #TheCollectiveCast, Anthony Maton, Scott Campbell, Nicola Boyle, Lucy Rigby and Tim Brown discuss two significant hearings which took place last week: the Supreme Court hearing in Lloyd v Google and the CPO hearings in the Trucks collective claims. 

In this second episode of #TheCollectiveCast, the Hausfeld team - Anthony Maton, Nicola Boyle, Lucy Rigby, Luke Streatfeild and Luke Grimes - discuss the first CPO hearing to have taken place following the Supreme Court’s judgment in Merricks and a key judgment in the Trucks collective claims which impacts litigation funding and the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal in collective proceedings.  

With all eyes on opt-out collective redress in the next few months and plenty of certification hearings between now and June, it’s time to launch Hausfeld’s new podcast surveying the collective redress landscape… In this 1st edition of the #TheCollectiveCast, Anthony Maton, Nicola Boyle and Lucy Rigby discuss the cases filling up the CAT’s diary and what may lie in store competition law collective actions.