Delivering Collective Redress

New Technologies
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5099-1854-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 803 g

Reihe: Civil Justice Systems

This book charts the transformative shifts in techniques that seek to deliver collective redress, especially for mass consumer claims in Europe. It shows how traditional approaches of class litigation (old technology) have been eclipsed by the new technology of regulatory redress techniques and consumer ombudsmen.
It describes a series of these techniques, each illustrated by leading examples taken from a 2016 pan-EU research project. It then undertakes a comparative evaluation of each technique against key criteria, such as effective outcomes, speed, and cost. The book reveals major transformations in European legal systems, shows the overriding need to view legal systems from fresh viewpoints, and to devise a new integrated model.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodges, Christopher

Voet, Stefaan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Insolvenz- und Zivilprozessrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Scope and the Criteria

I. Background and Principal Objective

II. The Techniques

III. Description of the Project and Methodology

IV. Criteria for Evaluation of Mechanisms

V. General Outline of this Book

VI. Major Findings

2. European Policy and Mechanisms for Collective Redress

I. Diverse Approaches and Piecemeal Legislation

II. The Public-Private Split

III. Objectives and Outcomes Replace Mechanisms

IV. Consumer Enforcement

V. Consumer Collective Redress: Policy Debates

VI. Commission's Recommendation on Collective Redress Mechanisms

VII. The Political and Technical Conundrum

VIII. Business Concerns on Ineffective Safeguards

IX. Consumer Concerns from Business Scandals

X. Proposals in 2016/17

XI. Competition Damages

XII. Data Protection

XIII. Investors

XIV. Conclusions

3. Collective Actions

I. Introduction

II. Belgium

III. Bulgaria

IV. England and Wales

V. Finland

VI. France

VII. Germany

VIII. Italy

IX. Lithuania

X. The Netherlands

XI. Poland

XII. Sweden

4. Criminal Compensation: Stand-alone and Consecutive Piggy-back

I. Belgium

II. United Kingdom

5. Regulatory Redress

I. Concept

II. The Range of Mechanisms of Regulatory Redress

III. Examples of the Powers

6. Ombudsmen

I. Typology

II. National Ombudsmen Schemes

7. Reassessing the Objectives
I. The Primary Objectives

II. Delivering Compensation

III. Affecting Future Behaviour

IV. Empirical Evidence on the Failure of the US Class Action as a Regulatory Mechanism

V. The Objectives Restated: Multi-functionalism

8. Conclusions

I. Overview of the Mechanisms

II. Applying the Criteria

III. Empirical Conclusions on the Mechanisms
IV. Implications of the Findings

Über Autor(innen)

Voet, Stefaan
Stefaan Voet is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, KU Leuven, Belgium and a host professor at the University of Hasselt, Belgium. He was the 2016-2017 TPR Chair at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Hodges, Christopher
Christopher Hodges OBE is Emeritus Professor of Justice Systems at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford, UK; Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK; and Chair of the Regulatory Horizons Council, UK.

Photo courtesy of Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

Christopher Hodges is Professor of Justice Systems, Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Head of the Swiss Re Research Programme on Civil Justice Systems at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford.

Stefaan Voet is Associate Professor at the University of Leuven and a host professor at the University of Hasselt in Belgium.