UK Litigation: 2025 Recap and 2026 Outlook

Chiraag Shah and Holly Bambury of Morrison Foerster share that a 2025 UK disputes roundup signals a pivotal 2026 for litigation funders, with courts tightening contractual certainty and privilege, expanding oversight of mass tort and group actions, rejecting assignment of ICSID awards in England, and the government moving to reverse PACCAR while refining collective actions funding and transparency rules that will directly shape enforceability, structuring, and risk allocation for funded claims under English law.

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