Barristers at XXIV Old Buildings are familiar with the complexities of group litigation and class actions, and can provide strategic advice and skilled advocacy across a wide range of sectors and industries. Our experience spans multiple jurisdictions, enabling to act in complex cross-border disputes and to collaborate effectively with multiple international teams.
XXIV Old Buildings has substantial expertise in handling group litigation matters. Members act in some of the highest profile and complex group cases being litigated in the English Court, both in the High Court and in the Competition Tribunal.
Members draw upon their broad, cross-practice expertise to advise on UK and international claims. Much of the work being undertaken by members has an international dimension, members bring their private international law expertise to bear upon this alongside their substantial experience of the unique procedural and tactical considerations that group litigation involves.
Our members have acted in litigation involving a wide range of sectors and industries, acting in claims involving the aviation, pharmaceutical, tech and financial services industries. Members also act in mass tort and environmental litigation.
Group action litigation recently advised upon:
Members act in the Lloyds Banking Group Litigation, representing a group of 220 investors against Lloyds Banking Group and 5 of its directors arguing that they were procured into supporting the bank’s 2008 takeover of HBoS “by means of misrepresentations, omissions, concealment of material information and/or negligent advice”.
In the Competition Tribunal, members act in a number of high profile claims including Rodger v Alphabet Inc, in which collective proceedings have been launched in relation to the issue as to whether Google has adopted a range of exclusionary practices to eliminate competition in app distribution and exploited its dominant position by charging excessive and unfair prices. Members are also acting the Trucks Cartel Litigation in the CAT.
In the aviation sector members are acting in consumer group actions, and act in the LaMia Flight 2933 litigation, a claim brought arising out of an air accident that took place in Colombia in which 71 of those on board died.
For more information on our members’ expertise or to discuss a particular matter, please contact us.
A claim pursued by thousands of claimants for damages arising out of cancers caused by the use of the cosmetic product Johnson’s Baby Powder.
Acting in emissions claims, involving allegations that leading manufacturers installed ‘defeat devices’ in their vehicles.
Representing a group of 220 investors against Lloyds Banking Group and 5 of its directors arguing that they were procured into supporting the bank’s 2008 takeover of HBoS “by means of misrepresentations, omissions, concealment of material information and/or negligent advice”.
Competition Appeal Tribunal matter in respect of applications arising from the Second Wave Proceedings in the Trucks litigation. The applications concerned questions of pass-on (as well as the related question of value of commerce) and overcharge.
Collective proceedings in relation to the issue as to whether Google has adopted a range of exclusionary practices to eliminate competition in app distribution and exploited its dominant position by charging excessive and unfair prices.
A claim brought arising out of an air accident that took place in Colombia in which 71 of those on board died.
Claims brought by approximately 6,000 institutional and retail shareholders of Lloyds TSB against the former directors of that bank in relation to Lloyds’ acquisition of HBOS during the banking crisis. The principal allegation is that, in breach of the duties they wed to the shareholders, the directors failed to disclose and/or concealed the true financial circumstances of HBOS at the time.
