Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council v Indivior plc

Subject Matter

PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action — Claimant pension fund bringing representative proceedings alleging involvement in fraudulent marketing of pharmaceutical product — Claimant seeking determination of defendant-side issues as part of bifurcated process — Defendants seeking to strike out representative proceedings — Whether proceedings to be struck out — CPR r 19.8

[2023] EWHC 3114 (Comm); [2024] 1 All ER (Comm) 1233, KBD

PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action — Party pursuing securities claims by way of representative proceedings — Court exercising discretion to strike out representative claims in favour of multi-party proceedings — Appropriate structure of proceedings to give effect to overriding objective — Whether court correctly exercising discretion to strike out

[2025] EWCA Civ 40; [2025] 1 WLR 2246; [2025] 4 All ER 232; [2025] WLR(D) 52, CA

PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action — Investors seeking compensation for false or misleading information published in relation to securities — Whether appropriate to bring representative proceedings or multi-party proceedings — Proper approach to court’s discretion as to whether to allow representative proceedings — CPR r 19.8

[2025] EWCA Civ 40; [2025] 1 WLR 2246; [2025] 4 All ER 232; [2025] WLR(D) 52, CA

Appellate History

Commentary

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