The financial times is reporting (here) that the UK Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform is close to publishing its proposals to facilitate actions for collective redress for price-fixing violations in the UK, with a view to changing the law next year.
The proposals are expected to mirror those the Civil Justice Council made last month, including an automatic opt-in to lawsuits for consumers.
As the article notes, while US consumers and purchasers have received on several occasions significant payouts as a result of illegal price-fixing conspiracies, those in the UK have trouble getting any redress at all, because of legal impediments.
"Deborah Prince, head of legal affairs for Which?, the consumer group, said it would be 'bloody marvellous' if the government followed the thrust of the CJC recommendations, which were 'absolutely spot on.'"
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