Hausfeld Perspectives - Podcasts

In the first Collective Cast of 2023 , the team  is looking forward to what they anticipate will be a busy 2023. In addition, Nicol Boyle, Lucy Rigby, Wessen Jazrawi and Luke Grimes will  discuss a recent procedural innovation in the Competition Appeal Tribunal: Umbrella Proceeding Orders.

More than 7 years since the UK’s opt-out regime was introduced & with plenty of cases now certified, we have a better view of defendant tactics in opposing certification, the current battleground issues and what the future might look like. Hausfeld’s Collective Cast returns with a review of the emerging landscape including a special mention of the recently granted permission to appeal in FX. ...

In this episode of the Competition Cast, Scott Campbell, Tom Bolster, Charles LaPorte and Julia Von Eitzen discuss the issue of limitation rules, particularly taking a deep dive into a recent European Court of Justice judgment arising from the Trucks cartel. 

In this summer edition, Anthony Maton, Nicola Boyle, Luke Streatfeild and Lucy Rigby discuss the UK Court of Appeal’s recent judgment in the Trains collective actions as well as the Google Play Store's Collective Proceedings Order hearing . 

In this inaugural episode of the Competition Cast,  Anna Morfey, Lesley Hannah and Amandine Gueret discuss the current post-Brexit developments’ impact on the UK competition landscape. More specifically, they provide a short digest of the CMA’s powers and responsibilities in the post Brexit-era and discuss how this has been implemented in practice over the past 18 months. 

In this episode of Hausfeld’s Collective Cast, Nicola Boyle & Lucy Rigby are joined by Which?’s Tom Clark & Lisa Webb to talk about Which?’s claim on behalf of around 30 million consumers against Qualcomm, the Tribunal’s recent unanimous decision allowing the claim to proceed to trial & the future of collective redress consumers competition law collective actions access to justice. 

 A bumper edition of Hausfeld’s Collective Cast as Anthony Maton, Nicola Boyle, David Lawne and Lucy Rigby debate both the Tribunal’s judgment in FX Claim UK and the recent judgment from the Court of Appeal in Le Patourel v BT . With a very active CAT, there’s plenty to discuss including the reasons behind Phillip Evans’ application for permission to appeal the CAT’s decision in FX Claim UK. 

Plenty to discuss in Hausfeld’s latest episode of the Collective Cast with Anthony Maton, Lesley Hannah & Lucy Rigby – they cover the recent Court of Appeal hearing in the BT claim, the certification judgment in McLaren and the two recent rulings from the Tribunal in Kent and Coll going to disclosure of funding & insurance arrangements.   #collectiveredress #collectiveactions #competitionl...

In this episode of Hausfeld’s #TheCollectiveCast, Anthony Maton, Nicola Boyle, Lucy Rigby and Luke Grimes kick-off the 2022 series by reflecting on the various developments from 2021 and considering what 2022 might have in store for the country’s burgeoning collective actions regime.

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 co...

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...