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Founded in 2012, Signature Litigation has grown into one of London’s pre-eminent specialist dispute resolution practices. From the outset, we set out to do things differently: a conflict-free, disputes-only platform designed to give clients the undivided focus and strategic agility that complex, high-stakes matters demand.
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Signature Litigation AARPI houses one of France’s most enviable product liability practices, with the team also handling commercial and corporate litigation, insurance and reinsurance, toxic tort and ESG, civil fraud and asset tracing, international arbitration, administrative and public law.
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Frankfurt has emerged as one of Europe's foremost financial and commercial centres and, increasingly, as a bridge between European and Asian markets. With that growth comes an increasing demand for sophisticated dispute resolution. Signature Litigation established its Frankfurt office to meet this need, bringing our conflict-free, disputes-only platform to the German market.
FIND OUT MOREPartner Sylvie Gallage-Alwis and Associate Alice Decramer discuss French Court's latest decision on consumer class action in the scope of a hidden defect case in the Revue de Jurisprudence de Droit des Affaires. This analysis addresses the liability consequences of conducting a recall or implementing large scale corrective measures by manufacturers, how these could be used by consumers to ground damages claims, the issues a Court will analyze when dealing with a class action, etc. Sylvie and Alice's article was published in Revue de Jurisprudence de Droit des Affaires, November 2020.
The group action "à la française", introduced by the law of March 17, 2014 (1), has not finished spilling ink and it is not the decision of the judicial court of Versailles on 4 June 2020 that will contradict this.
On 4 June 2020, the Versailles Court of Justice rejected the CLCV group action, agreeing with the manufacturer, and finding that the latter had only complied with its legal safety and precautionary obligations through its recall action. The court considers that a recall action is not worth an acknowledgement of liability or evidence of a hidden defect that could give rise to a group action.
