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NLJ this week: Collective actions with an anticlimactic ending

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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’. 

Regan muses on the trend for group actions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal as well as witness statements and alternative dispute resolution. He is delighted by a ‘succinct and crystal clear’ decision. 

Regan also has the latest on judicial promotions and relays a practitioner’s suggestion for a possible gamechanger in inheritance disputes.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

Commercial property and child law teams expand with senior hires

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Set expands London and Singapore offering with senior international disputes hires

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Firm strengthens real estate and litigation teams with partner promotions

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