Practice
Product liability
Group litigation for defects that are common by construction, not by coincidence.
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England & Wales, at 31 July 2026.
Where a defect originates in a design or a manufacturing batch, causation and breach are common to every owner and only loss is individual. English Group Litigation Orders and US class practice both accommodate that shape.
We work with independent engineers and, where a regulator is already involved, we align the claim with the recall record rather than duplicating it.
What we do
- Group Litigation Order applications and management
- Technical and metallurgical expert programmes
- Recall and regulatory-record alignment
- Diminution-in-value and consequential-loss models
Regimes we use
- UKConsumer Protection Act 1987 · CPR 19.21–19.28
- EUDirective (EU) 2024/2853
- USRule 23(b)(3) · MDL practice
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