The Collective Cast - 2025 Wrap-up

2025 marked a decade since the entry into force of the opt-out collective actions regime in competition law. This decennial was also a threshold year for the regime, as it produced the first successful damages award to a class in the Kent v Apple proceedings and the first collective settlement fully disposing of a collective claim in the Merricks v Mastercard proceedings.

In our Collective Cast episode, Luke Streatfeild, Daniel Hunt, and Michael Zymler review the past year and consider new claims filed and certified, the judgments and rulings that made 2025 a remarkable year for competition collective actions and take a look at the year ahead. (*)

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