Author: Philine Wassenaar
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The end or the beginning of an era? The Court of Justice delivers its verdict in the Google Shopping case
The long-awaited judgment from the European Court of Justice (“CJEU”) in the Google Shopping saga has finally arrived. On 10 September 2024, following a case that started with an investigation in 2010 and spanned nearly one and a half decades, the CJEU rejected Google’s appeal and delivered a huge victory for the European Commission (“Commission”). …
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A Dutch Merricks? Amsterdam Court of Appeal rules on fundamentals of class actions in TPC v Oracle and Salesforce
Class actions in which damages can be awarded on a collective basis are still a relatively new phenomenon in Europe, with the UK, Portuguese and Dutch opt-out collective action regimes seen as frontrunners. It has dawned on policymakers and lawyers alike that damages can be suffered across a broad and disparate group of victims, which…