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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.

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Published: October 18, 2023

Xandra Kramer participated in an interview by the Open Innovation Team of the UK government working on civil legal aid in September 2023. She provided information on developments and ongoing innovations in legal aid, digitalisation and specific pathways in the Netherlands, including on the ‘wijkrechter’. She also participated in a follow-up online review of civil legal aid in England & Wales, organised on 17 October 2023 which aimed at exchanging thoughts with experts in different countries.