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UK CAT Collective Proceedings Spring 2024 Update

30 April 2024. Published by David Cran, Head of IP & Tech and Chris Ross, Partner and Leonia Chesterfield, Of Counsel

Last year, we reported on what was then a fledgling collective proceedings regime in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). Our 2023 update is here. Since then, the competition collective proceedings regime has continued to grow at pace, notwithstanding the seismic Supreme Court decision in PACCAR affecting the underlying funding arrangements which underpin the entire collective proceedings landscape. 

In a short spring 2024 stock-take, we summarise some recent developments in the regime.