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Class/collective actions: jurisdiction issues
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Class/collective actions: jurisdiction issues
by Oliver Browne and Volker Schäfer, Latham & Watkins
This article examines certain issues of jurisdiction in proceedings where a class of claimants brings a claim against one or more defendants and where the courts of more than one EU member state are involved. In particular, this article addresses the lis pendens/related actions issue and the Torpedo issue in relation to parallel multi-party claims.
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