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• Acted for Dr Rachael Kent in Kent v Apple in the first trial against a tech giant for a claim brought under the CAT collective regime for 7 weeks in January and February 2025. With 19.6 million, it constitutes the largest class ever represented and with some £1.5 billion, the highest damages ever sought for any collective trial to be heard before the CAT. Currently, worldwide regulatory investigations and proceedings run against Apple for similar conduct in the US, Europe, Australia, South Korea and elsewhere. The UK Competition and Markets Authority intervened.
  
• Continuing to progress the group litigation against Mercedes-Benz in in the UK on behalf of individual and business purchasers of diesel Mercedes vehicles installed with illegal ‘defeat devices’ which altered the apparent emissions of their vehicles. Hundreds of thousands of vehicles are affected and the harmful impact of air pollution involves each of us. Together, there are more than a million claims against multiple car manufacturers, the largest group action before the English courts leading to unprecedented joint group litigation management. We act with other claimant firms as part of the GLO Steering Committee. The second issue trial dealing with whether the vehicles contained illegal defeat devices will take place in October 2025.
  
• Continuing to act in the first ever consolidation of two competing UK opt-out collective actions on behalf of hundreds of thousands of UK publishers of websites and apps against Google for alleged anti-competitive practices in the online display advertising market, estimated to be worth £13.6 billion. The case set a groundbreaking precedent when our client agreed to combine the claim with a competing CPO application and the CAT ordered the consolidation of the claims which were certified in May 2024. We are now co-Counsel to the Ad Tech Collective Action LLP with members Charles Arthur, Claudio Pollack, and Kate Wellington. The claim is progressing swiftly, with a substantive CAT trial due to start in October 2025.
  

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• Acting for around 4,000 claimants in the UK’s largest pharmaceutical group action against Johnson & Johnson, seeking damages of up to £5 billion linked to asbestos-contaminated talcum powder
  
• Acting for over 50,000 Mercedes-Benz drivers in group litigation against Daimler AG, valued at £1 billion and anticipated to be the UK’s largest diesel emissions case.
  
• Acting for around 30,000 Tesco employees in an equal pay claim, potentially worth around £500 million, forming part of wider litigation that could cost Tesco £4 billion.
  

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• Acted on claims for compensation against Audi, BMW, Citroen, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Mercedes, Nissan/Renault, Peugeot, Porsche, Seat, Skoda, Vauxhall, VW, Volvo and others brought on behalf of over 1.2 million vehicle owners, and constitute the largest ever consumer group action in the UK.
  
• Instructed by the Ogale and Bille Communities in the Niger Delta to bring civil claims against Shell plc and its Nigerian subsidiary, SPDC.
  
• Acted on the first national group equal pay claim to succeed under the equality Act 2010, having received a successful Tribunal judgment in August 2024. The Tribunal upheld the equal pay claims of the more than 3,500 claimants. The Tribunal ruled that paying the predominantly female store staff less than the male warehouse staff when their jobs were equal was indirect sex discrimination that could not be objectively justified.
  

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• Advising 70,000 consumers in a claim against Mercedes for diesel emissions cheating
  
• Acting on behalf of 36,000 motorists in a claim against Jaguar Land Rover for defective components in a range of popular diesel models including Range Rover and Land Rover Discovery.
  
• Acting on behalf of the Class Representative, Alex Neill Class Representative Limited, Milberg commenced opt-out collective proceedings against Sony on behalf of 8.9 million UK consumers in August 2022, in relation to alleged abusive conduct concerning the distribution of digital PlayStation games and in-game content.
  

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• Representing over 640,000 claimants (including municipalities, individuals, businesses, utilities, faith-based organisations and indigenous tribes) in a landmark litigation against two entities of the BHP group which at the time of writing is still dually listed in England and Australia. At the heart of this matter is the 2015 ‘Fundão Dam collapse’ in South-eastern Brazil, involving 50 million cubic metres of iron ore tailings being washed into the Doce River with massive human, environmental, and economic cost.
  
• Representing more than 1,500 Brazilian orange farmers in a landmark case stemming from the Defendants’ admitted cartel conduct in the Brazilian orange market. This includes manipulating demand and artificially fixing purchase prices, which caused substantial harm to the claimants.
  
• Instructed by hundreds of thousands of individuals and businesses who owned, leased or otherwise acquired diesel vehicles in their claims against almost every major car manufacturer, associated finance entities and authorised dealerships (“Pan-NOx Emissions Group Litigation”) (colloquially known as “Dieselgate”).
  

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• Representing Commercial and Interregional Card Claims I and II Limited in collective proceedings before the CAT concerning fees charged by Mastercard and Visa.
  
• Representing 14,000 current and former Tesco workers bringing claims for equal pay.
  
• Representing several thousand residential mortgage borrowers in claims against lenders for being forced into mortgage with excessively high rates of interest.
  

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• Advising a group of 140 Claimants in relation to their claim for damages and interest against various truck manufacturers, following a finding by the European Commission of a price-fixing cartel. The Claimants comprise those who bought, leased or subcontracted trucks weighing six tonnes or more between 1997 and 2012. The claim is worth £100m+.
  
• Acted on the Eclipse litigation where the Defendant developed, marketed and implemented the Eclipse Scheme which was sold to the Claimants as an opportunity to invest in transactions with Disney in relation to film rights. The transactions entered into by the Eclipse Partnerships with Disney were a fraud. The value of the claim is £1.3billion.
  
• Handling a claim by 400 TUI customers in relation to a cancelled cruise in the Caribbean.
  
• Advising a group of 140 Claimants in relation to their claim for damages and interest against various truck manufacturers, following a finding by the European Commission of a price-fixing cartel. The Claimants comprise those who bought, leased or subcontracted trucks weighing six tonnes or more between 1997 and 2012. The claim is worth £100m+.
  
• Developing, marketing, and implementing the Eclipse Scheme which was sold to the Claimants as an opportunity to invest in transactions with Disney in relation to film rights. The transactions entered into by the Eclipse Partnerships with Disney were a fraud. The value of the claim is £1.3billion.
  

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• Acting for over 7000 and serving members of the armed forces in relation to claims for noise induced hearing loss. Securing landmark ‘Matrix’ agreement in July 2024.
  
• Acting on behalf of clients in group claim relating to of parenteral nutrition bags.
  
• Acting for multiple clients in a group action professional negligence claim against SSB Law primarily concerning their widely publicised mishandling of cavity wall insulation claims.
  

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• Successfully appealed a Court of Appeal decision in TUI UK Ltd v Griffiths to establish the client had not received a fair trial.
  
• Acted on a successful appeal and dismissal of cross appeal in Anibaba v Dana Airlines.
  

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• Acting for over 300 investors in the shares of Indivior plc and Reckitt Benckiser Group plc in a s.90/90A FSMA claim against the two companies for losses caused by alleged misconduct in relation to the marketing in the US of a drug known as Suboxone. Matter value is in the hundreds of millions GBP.
  
• Acting for Justin Le Patourel, the class representative in the lead collective proceedings in the Competition Appeal Tribunal against BT for alleged abuse of its dominant position in the market for landline services. This was the first collective proceeding to reach trial in the UK. Matter value is in the region of £1.3 billion.
  
• Acting for (1) over 13,000 licensed black cab drivers and (2) Justin Peters, as assignee for Kabbee Exchange Ltd (a licensed minicab price comparison and booking service provider) and Iride London Ltd (the third largest licenced private hire cab company in London in 2015), in claims against Uber for losses sustained as a result of Uber’s unlawful activities in the London market. Matter value c.£340 million.
  

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• Representing over 1,800 corporate claimants in group claims brought against Mastercard and Visa, totalling approximately £1.5bn. Clients include WorldRemit, Henderson & Jones, Lebara Mobile, 3, Bet365, IHG and numerous global hotel chains, high street and online retailers, restaurant chains, travel companies, arts and entertainment companies, airlines, ticketing companies and others.
  
• Acting for seven UK supermarket groups that account for 45% of the UK grocery market (Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Iceland, M&S, Morrisons and Ocado), in their claims for damages against seven leading farmed Atlantic salmon producers.
  
• Representing Hillside (Shared Services) Limited and others (whose claims were issued in 2017) in interchange reimbursement claims against Visa and MasterCard in two separate sets of proceedings.
  

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• Represented over 100 English and Welsh personal search companies in a complex group litigation claim before the High Court to recover payments made to the ten water and sewerage utility companies in England and Wales for access to and/or the provision of copies of environmental information held by the Defendants.
  
• Acting for a group of over 900 SME claimants in High Court proceedings against Clydesdale Bank and National Australia Bank alleging Deceit, Misrepresentation, Negligent Misstatement, Breach of Contract and Unjust Enrichment.
  
• Instructed in a group action representing claimants (most likely by way of a GLO) seeking restitution for secret commissions paid by energy companies to the independent power brokers instructed by businesses to find the best electricity and gas prices.
  

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• Acted for Ad tech Collective Action LLP, class representative for approximately 130,000 UK online publishers (websites and apps) and associated partners against Google.
  
• Acting for a group of bondholders to investigate and pursue claims on their behalf arising out of the collapse of Blackmore Bond Plc.
  

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• Successfully defended an application in the High Court by Williams & Co to strike out the group claims as an abuse of process on the basis that they were brought using one claim form.
  
• Commenced group action commercial court proceedings against NFU Mutual on behalf of a group of some 90 policyholders in relation to unpaid Covid-19 business interruption claims.
  
• Acting for a group of 30+ individuals in a complex, multijurisdictional dispute with a foreign lender.