Class Actions and Government (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107043978)

The relationship between class actions and government makes for a nuanced and fascinating study. Government sets the scene by implementing and designing the regime, by choosing whether to act as a seed-funder for the regime, and by deciding to what extent it should regulate the regime against worldwide classes being litigated on its doorstep. It can then become a key player in the litigation itself. Government may be a representative claimant bringing the action, or a class member, or a potential financial beneficiary. Most commonly of all, it may be a defendant, being sued under the very regime which it enacted into law. With numerous opt-out class action regimes around the common law world in place, and others on the horizon, the book takes a comparative perspective throughout, and concludes with a series of recommendations, drawn from that comparative analysis of government's intricate interplay with class actions.

Author: Rachael Mulheron
ISBN-10: 1107043972
ISBN-13: 9781107043978
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/21/2020
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 1.10d