Group Litigation - Strategy & Costs Pitfalls

Introduction

Group actions are now a defining feature of English litigation, from Post Office to Dieselgate and Merricks v Mastercard. Yet with scale come heightened risks, procedural complexity, escalating costs, and funding uncertainty.

Following the PACCAR ruling and the Civil Justice Council’s 2025 Final Report on Litigation Funding, practitioners must now navigate shifting rules in the funding landscape, transparency, and costs management.

This webinar offers a practical overview of the legal framework, strategic choices, and cost-control measures vital to managing multi-party claims effectively and avoiding the financial and procedural pitfalls that have recently emerged.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Understand the main routes to collective redress - Group Litigation Orders (GLOs) (CPR 19.22-19.24), representative actions (CPR 19.8), and Collective Proceedings Orders (CPOs) in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT proceedings)
• Recognise how recent cases are shaping courts’ approach to the stringent 'same interest' tests required for representative actions (Prismall v Google), and the judicial exercise of case management powers in multi-party claims (Hammon v UCL, Wirral Council v Indivior)
• Identify common cost-risk areas, funding structure flaws, After-The-Event (ATE) insurance gaps, adverse and inter-claimant costs, and budgeting traps demonstrated by orders for security for costs (Asertis v Bloch)
• Appreciate the profound impact of the post-PACCAR funding landscape and key CJC Report proposals, including statutory reform of LFAs/DBAs, funder regulation, transparency, and access-to-justice safeguards
• Gain practical strategies to protect profitability and ensure proportionality when managing large-scale, multi-party litigation

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Thursday 21st May 2026

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