ELI-Council Meeting February 2024: some highlights
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Webinar: Law in Public Interest: Collective Redress, Funding & Climate Regulation
Our Vici team organises an online seminar titled ‘Law in the Public Interest: Collective Redress, and Litigation Funding and Climate Change Regulation’ on 19 November from 15-17 hrs (CET).
The event will explore the intersections between legal frameworks and the public interest in a time of increasing concerns about climate change, corporate responsibility, and the cost barriers to pursuing collective justice. As climate change becomes a global priority, regulatory frameworks and climate litigation are holding governments and corporations accountable for their environmental impact. Collective redress and litigation funding also fulfil this role and are gaining prominence in recent years with the adoption of legislation such as the EU Representative Actions Directive and the Dutch WAMCA and with high-profile cases like the Post Office litigation in the UK.
Esteemed speakers are: Eva van der Zee (University of Hamburg, Germany) on Behavioural Insights on Climate Change Law; Koen Rutten (Finch, Netherlands) on Is Funding Collective Litigation still Affordable? and Flora Page (23ES, United Kingdom) on What the Bates v Post Office Litigation reveals about the Pros and Cons of Litigation Funding. Introduction and moderation by Adrian Cordina and Xandra Kramer
Register before 19 November for free here.
Published: February 26, 2024
On 22 and 23 February 2024 a Council Meeting of the European Law Institute took place in Vienna, to discuss institutional matters and project updates. Xandra Kramer, member of the Council since 2021, among other presented the progress of the ongoing project on Digitalisation of Civil Justice Systems in Europe, together with co-reporters Dory Reiling and Anna Skrjabina. The project aism to provide an overarching framework to improve the use of digital technology in the judiciary, while securing fundamental values of civil procedure. Valuable feedback was received and it is expected that the project can be finalized early 2025. One of the other many interesting projects of the ELI is dedicated to Third Party Funding of Litigation, in which our postdoctoral researcher Adriani Dori is involved as project assistant. Project repoters Dame Sara Cockerill and Susanne Augenhofer presented the progress of the project, of which Xandra Kramer is one of the assessors. The project will make a very valuable contribution to ongoing discussions on third party litigation funding. It is expected to be concluded in the autumn of 2024. See also the LinkedIn post of the ELI on the Council meeting.