Book contents
- Reviews
- Class Actions and Government
- Class Actions and Government
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Summary of Contents
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Mode of Citation
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Preparing a Path to the Stadium
- 2 Government as Class Actions Enabler
- 3 Government as Class Actions Designer
- 4 Government as Class Actions Funder
- 5 Government as ‘Gate-Keeper’: Cross-Border Class Actions
- Part II As a Participant in the Match
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Government as ‘Gate-Keeper’: Cross-Border Class Actions
from Part I - Preparing a Path to the Stadium
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2020
- Reviews
- Class Actions and Government
- Class Actions and Government
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Summary of Contents
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Mode of Citation
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Preparing a Path to the Stadium
- 2 Government as Class Actions Enabler
- 3 Government as Class Actions Designer
- 4 Government as Class Actions Funder
- 5 Government as ‘Gate-Keeper’: Cross-Border Class Actions
- Part II As a Participant in the Match
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the phenomenon of the multijurisdictional, or cross-border, class action. Several high-profile consumer class actions, dealing with grievances from breast implants to lost competition prizes, have comprised cross-border class actions. Lawmakers from around the Comparator Jurisdictions have taken entirely disparate views as to how to deal with non-resident class members. Some have insisted that such class members proactively opt in to the domestic class action, whilst others have taken a more liberal view, or have omitted to deal with the matter legislatively at all. Whichever legislative tack has been adopted, the concept of cross-border class actions raises important issues of private international law.
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- Class Actions and Government , pp. 172 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020