Collective actions
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Subsidy Control reviews: proportionality with a light touch
As erstwhile State aid lawyers will know, under the UK’s new subsidy control regime, interested parties can challenge subsidy decisions in the CAT, which will apply the same principles applied by the High Court in a judicial review. But what standard of review will the CAT adopt when examining a substantive subsidy decision? The recent… Continue reading
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Collective Actions in the Supreme Court
The big news from today’s UK Supreme Court collective action decision in Mastercard v Merricks [2020] UKSC 51 is not only that Mr Merricks won and defeated the appeal, but that the Supreme Court approached the issues in a far more claimant-friendly way than even the Court of Appeal had done. The headlines are that,… Continue reading
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