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Tech giant Apple has lost its latest bid to block a multi-million-pound class action by challenging the funding method.

Former pupils of Treloar’s College who were infected with contaminated blood during medical research in the 1970s and 1980s have lost their bid to bring a group litigation order (GLO).

The Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has approved the £200m settlement between Mastercard and Walter Merricks, in a claim initially valued at £14bn.

How will you spend your £4 Mastercard pay-out? Professor Dominic Regan, NLJ columnist, AKA 'The Insider', writes that the result of the collective action once put at £10bn and later settled for £200m renders it a ‘pointless exercise’.

How will you spend your £4 Mastercard payout? Dominic Regan tots up collective action anti-climaxes & laments expectation versus reality

Should third-party funding be regulated? If so, how and by whom? This is just one of many thorny questions likely to occupy the minds of litigation lawyers in the year ahead, David Greene, NLJ consultant editor and senior partner at Edwin Coe, writes in this week’s issue.

David Greene anticipates attempts to make the litigation process more efficient and less costly…and make or break for litigation funding

Former financial services ombudsman Walter Merricks’ class action against Mastercard has entered unprecedented territory after the litigation funder opposed a potential settlement.

A former judge is bringing an opt-out claim potentially worth billions of pounds against Google.

Angus Nurse sets out the legal routes for remedying corporate environmental harm

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Collective action

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Weightmans—Jason Slatcher

Mishcon de Reya—trainees

Sackers—Charlotte Adams & Fraser Sutton