Do Collective Actions Drain the UK Economy?

Our new Legal and Policy Officer, Beverley Robertson, has published an article on the often cited argument that collective actions drain the UK economy.

In her piece, Beverley systematically and clearly analyses the claim made in a recent report by the ECIPE that class actions are likely to cost the UK economy in the region of £18 billion.

Her analysis demonstrates, by reference to the data quoted by the ECIPE, that this claim is “alarmist and misleading”. In addition, she points to the intentional use of combined data from the US – which has a very different class actions landscape to the UK – to generate concerns about the impact of the (far more limited) opt-out competition class action regime in the UK.

In writing this piece, Beverley joins several other prominent voices in this space who have rightly sought to correct the record on this point – most notably David Greene and Anthony Maton – and sheds important light on data to be considered by the Department of Business and Trade in their current call for evidence on opt-out class actions.

A full version is posted here; an edited version was published on the Law Society Gazette which can be accessed here.

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