The Competition Collective Actions Forum 2025 - 3rd Annual

The only Forum dedicated to UK ‘Collective’ Competition Litigation

In-person | 5 June 2025 | Central London

 

Complimentary attendance for In-House Counsel

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Join your peers from across the competition litigation community at the only Forum to focus solely on UK 'Collective' Competition Actions.

Back for a third year, this focused yet comprehensive one day conference, brings together those involved in live cases and the wider competition litigation community to address lessons learned and experience gained in this rapidly evolving area of litigation.

Hear your peers address nuances in bringing and defending class actions and recent case developments around trial, settlement and distribution, carriage disputes, funding and the first chance to discuss what the early judgements mean for the UK’s opt-out collective actions regime.

Over just one focused but comprehensive day out of the office you’ll benefit from:
8x interactive sessions designed by
an Advisory Board directly engaged in today’s
key live cases.
30+ specialist speakers sharing
their personal insights and experiences.
Insights and commentary from practitioners
with unique first-hand experience across every level
of the CAT's Opt-Out Collective Regime.

Your Expert Event Advisory Panel

Hear Both Claimant and Defendant Perspectives

Key Topics You Will Hear Addressed: 

Highlighting Key Collective Decisions and
Procedural Innovations Over the Last Year

- Assessing the UK’s Competition Collective Action Regime and where further development are expected and needed

- An overview of the cases before the CAT and Court of Appeal: key decisions

- A look at Collective Actions at the trial stage

- Other procedural innovations

Assessing Trials and Early Judgments in the Collective Actions Regime

- Key takeaways from the BT - Le Patourel and other early Judgements

- What the early judgments say about excessive pricing as an area for competition collective actions

- Where are we with pass-on cases?

Examining the Role of Experts in Collective Proceedings

- Assessing the use of expert evidence in collective competition claims so far

- Differences and additional work required for collective actions vs non-collective proceedings

- The expert’s role in certification and impact on the use of expert evidence

- Applying relevant lessons from non-collective proceedings use of expert evidence

- Access to witness and documentary evidence and the interplay with expert analysis

Exploring Practical Challenges for Distribution
and Communication with the Class

- Assessing class communication strategy following the Gutmann Boundary Fares settlement

- The role of funders in the settlement process

- Building effective distribution plans in preparation for judgement /settlement

- Challenges and concerns for class communication at the distribution stage

Revisiting Certification and Carriage Disputes
Following the First Settlements, Judgments,
and Distributions

- Coming back to the question of funding and distribution at the certification stage following early settlements

- Lessons learned carriage disputes

- Examining the latest procedural developments the CAT is using to resolve Carriage Disputes

- Perspectives on the CJC interim report and the future of litigation funding

Examining the Evolution of the Class Rep’s Role

- How what’s understood to be the role of the Class Representative changed following cases going to trial?

- Understandings and preparations for Class Reps post-Reifa developments

- Effectively utilising advisory boards for a class representative’s needs

 

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Key Highlights from Previous Years...

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