Cinnamon On Top: How Portugal Is Perfecting Its Progressive Collective Redress Regime With The Implementation Of The Representative Action Directive

Lucas Macedo of Nivalion and Johannes Nickl, Doctoral Candidate at Heidelberg University, highlight key elements of a proposed new Consumer Collective Action Act being considered in Portugal, including permitting a defendant to examine an LFA, deeming any clause which gives the funder influence over decisions in the litigation void, and prohibiting the funding of litigation by a competitor of the defendant.

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