Ebook: Collective actions: enhancing access to justice and reconciling multilayer interests

This volume of essays draws together research on different types of collective actions: group actions, representative actions, test case procedures, derivative actions and class actions. The main focus is on how these actions can enhance access to justice and on how to balance the interests of private actors in protecting their rights with the interests of society as a whole. Rather than focusing on collective actions only as a procedural device per se, the contributors to this book also examine how these mechanisms relate to their broader social context. Bringing together a broad range of scholarship from the areas of competition, consumer, environmental, company and securities law, the book includes contributions from Asian, European and North American scholars and therefore expands the scope of the traditional European and/or American debate.

• Examines the subject of collective actions in a new way that cuts cross several substantive fields of law
• Unites, for the first time, the expertise from legal fields discussing the same issues, such as collective actions and access to justice
• Brings together original scholarship from Asia, North America and Europe in a field where the focus has previously only been on Europe and/or the US, and expands the discussion beyond limited geographical areas
• Focuses on the use of collective redress mechanisms not only as a procedural device per se, but also in their broader social context