| Description |
1 online resource (xlix, 411 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Government as Class Actions Enabler -- Government as Class Actions Designer -- Government as Class Actions Funder -- Government as 'Gate-keeper': Cross-border Class Actions -- Government as Representative Claimant -- Government as Class Member -- Government as Class Actions Defendant -- Government as Class Actions Beneficiary -- Conclusion : Levelling the Playing Field |
| Summary |
"The relationship between government and class actions is a challenging one - combining leaps of faith, conflicts, tensions, and truly complex jurisprudence. Government may be the 'pursuer' in one class action, and the 'pursued' in another. It may (indirectly) fund one class action, and (indirectly) receive funding from another. It may draft one kind of class action regime, but actually implement a different type altogether. It may quite like the idea of its courts being at the hub of global class actions litigation, but hesitate (and actually legislate against) making that a reality for its own class action. These (and other) dichotomies and tensions make for an absorbing study. This book examines that relationship in detail, and in particular, analyses the following, and often controversial, roles of government: as class action enabler, as designer, as funder, as gate-keeper, as representative claimant, as class member, as defendant, and finally, as beneficiary"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2020) |
| Subject |
Class actions (Civil procedure) -- Political aspects -- English-speaking countries
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English-speaking countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019033433 |
| ISBN |
9781107358317 |
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1107358310 |
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