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Out now: Financing Collective Actions in The Netherlands
The book Financing Collective Actions in the Netherlands: Towards a Litigation Fund? has just been published (Eleven International Publishing 2024) and is available open access. The book is authored by the Rotterdam Vici team members Xandra Kramer and Jos Hoevenaars, and Ianika Tzankova and Karlijn van Doorn (both TilbUniversity). It is an English and updated version of a Study commissioned by the Dutch Research and Documentation Centre of the Ministry of Justice, published in September 2023. It discusses developments in Dutch collective actions from a regulatory perspective, including the implementation of the RAD, and contains a quantitative and qualitative analysis of cases that have been brought under the WAMCA. It examines funding aspects of collective actions from a regulatory, empirical and comparative perspective. It delves into different funding modes, including market developments in third party litigation funding, and addresses the question of the necessity, feasibility, and design of a (revolving) litigation fund for collective actions.
A launch event and webinar will take place on 3 July from 15-17.15 hrs CET. Registration for free here.
Published: January 22, 2024
On 18 January 2024, Xandra Kramer gave a joint presentation with Remco van Rhee on the Europeanisation of Dutch Civil Procedure at Maastricht University. This is part of a series of conferences and a book project on European Civil Procedure, initiated by colleagues of Sapienza University Rome. She outlined general trends in the Netherlands as regards the influence of European civil procedure in the Netherlands and the approach towards the implementation of EU legislation. Selected topics were intellectual property, uniform European procedures, collective actions and funding and SLAPPs.