ABSTRACT
In the spring of 2015 the author received out of the blue a round-robin email from an organisation called Justice Not Prot inviting me (by name) alongside other ‘leading scholars’ to sign a letter that it was proposed would be sent to a national newspaper. The main points of the letter were:
1. Concern over introduction of class actions on the US model. 2. Coupling of class actions with ‘unregulated and predatory third-party litigation
funding’. 3. These developments could increase ‘meritless lawsuits’ that in turn could negatively
affect the economy. 4. UK litigation costs have risen at an alarming rate. 5. To deal with these issues only opt-in class actions should be allowed. Government
licensing should be imposed on third-party litigation funders and disclosure rules should be imposed on them.
