Rachael Mulheron

Class Actions and Government

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Government, in all of its guises, plays a significant, controversial, and sometimes hidden, role in class actions reform and litigation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781107043978
• ISBN-10: 1107043972
• Artikelnr.: 57691234

Autorenporträt

Rachael Mulheron is Professor of Tort Law and Civil Justice at Queen Mary University of London. She is widely published in the class actions field and is also the author of the textbook, Principles of Tort Law (Cambridge, 2016). Professor Mulheron was academic member of the Civil Justice Council of England and Wales between 2009 and 2018 and, in that capacity, chaired various working parties, provided an empirical study on class actions, and served as principal author of various other reports and publications for the government. She also served as a member of the relevant rules-drafting committee in 2015, which prepared rules of court for the United Kingdom's first opt-out class action.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. 'Preparing a Path to the Stadium': 2. Government as class actions enabler
3. Government as class actions designer
4. Government as class actions funder
5. Government as 'gate-keeper': cross-border class actions
Part II. 'As a Participant in the Match': 6. Government as representative claimant
7. Government as class member
8. Government as class actions defendant
9. Government as class actions beneficiary
10. Conclusion: levelling the playing field.