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The decision in #LloydvGoogle, and the sole speech of Lord Leggatt, is hugely important for effective access to justice for: (i) mass consumer claims, whether privacy-based or not; (ii) against big tech or other similarly scaled Defendants. These are my takeaways 1/
First, the speech is realistic about the practical impossibility of “opt in” GLO proceedings for modest sums (two figure or low three figure damages): see [25]-[28]; and identifies that the “opt out” CPO model in competition law is designed to address those flaws: [29]-[32] 2/
Second, the speech is open, after an exhaustive historical and comparative review of authority, to the purposive interpretation and reinvigoration of representative proceedings as a means to plug some of the same holes plugged by opt out CPOs. 3/
