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IBA Annual Litigation Forum

17 Apr - 19 Apr 2024

Netherlands Commercial Court

IJdok , 20
Amsterdam
1013

Session information

Current trends in class actions

Thursday 18 April (1430 - 1615)

Netherlands Commercial Court

IJdok , 20
Amsterdam
1013
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Description

We will move to the Netherlands Commercial Court for an afternoon compromising of five different 75-minute workshops followed by a coffee break.

• Workshop 1: Case management and best practices, moderated by Frans Overkleeft

• Workshop 2: Class settlements, moderated by Maria José Azar-Baud

• Workshop 3: The Directive (EU) 2020/1828 on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers, moderated by Tobias Lühmann

• Workshop 4: Third party funding, moderated by Robert Johnston

• Workshop 5: Competition cases (EU courts, moderated by Wessen Jazrawi

Session / Workshop Chair(s)

Professor Maria Jose Azar-Baud MRS	Maria José Azar-Baud, Paris, France
Wessen Jazrawi	Hausfeld, London, England
Robert Johnston	Johnson Winter & Slattery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Co-Chair, Class Actions Committee
Tobias Lühmann	Noerr, Berlin, Germany
Frans Overkleeft	NautaDutilh, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Speakers

Judge Anette Bordes	Netherlands Commercial Court, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Glaucia Coelho	Machado Meyer Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil; Co-Chair, Class Actions Committee
Judge Mieke Dudok van Heel	District Court of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Heather Gagen	Travers Smith, London, England
Judge Pauline Hofmeijer-Rutten	Netherlands Commercial Court, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jeroen Sebastiaan Kortmann	Stibbe, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Andrea Leufgen	Gleiss Lutz, Frankfurt, Germany
Anne Merminod	Torys LLP, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Vice Chair, Class Actions Committee
Patrick Moloney	LCM (Litigation Capital Management), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Porfírio Moreira	Ferreira Pinto Cardigos Advogados, Lisbon, Portugal; Treasurer, Class Actions Committee
Justyna Niemczyk	De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Amsterdam, Netherlands
David Stellings	Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, New York, New York, USA
Henry Warwick KC	Henderson Chambers, London, England

Session presentations

Workshop 3: The Directive (EU) 2020/1828 on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers

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