On 24 and 25 April 2025 our colleagues Cécile Rouméas and Damiën Berkhout participated in the Perfect Law Global Class Actions & Mass Torts Conference in Londen, the UK. The conference is a yearly, international forum where judges, lawyers, academics, funders and other mass tort experts gather to discuss recent and possible future developments in collective actions.
Advocate-General Campos Sánchez-Bordona rendered an opinion on how the European jurisdictional rules in relation to the "place where the harm occurred" should be applied in case of a collective action on behalf of a large group. The questions were referred to the European Court of Justice by the Amsterdam district court.
In this post, we analyse the interesting WAMCA decision rendered by the Midden-Nederland district court in the Essure case. Some key lessons are to be learned about the temporal scope of the WAMCA, and a new framework is provided to stress test funding arrangements.
On 6 November 2024, the Amsterdam District Court ruled on the methodology to be used for the damage calculation in follow-on claims of indirect purchasers from the air cargo cartel.
Milieudefensie et al. claimed that Shell has a societal duty of care to reduce its emissions by 2030 with 45% compared to 2019. In first instance the District Court of The Hague ruled in favor of Milieudefensie et al. The Court of Appeal overturned the District Court’s decision and rejected the claims.
Lindenbaum B.V.
Concertgebouwplein 13-H
1071 LL Amsterdam
Pays-Bas
