The Italian government (still) hopes to prevent people from starting never-ending legal proceedings (in 2012, almost five million civil proceedings were still pending) and has enforced a new decree (DL n.132/2014 of 12th of September 2014), with the aim to increase...
A Peaceful New Year? The EU is planning 2015 will bring peace to businesses and consumers they deal with. This is in the shape of new laws that will come into effect on 9 July 2015 . This can only be good news – it is estimated that in 2012 out of 6.4...
ADR methods, such as mediation and arbitration, are increasingly becoming the method of choice of parties in dispute. Quicker, cheaper, and more flexible as to the outcome than the courts, many clients are choosing these routes over litigation. In the international...
The publication contains a collection of articles describing the current state of the law in Europe and in the United States regarding class actions and other procedural tools for collective litigation. The majority of the articles have been written...
