'A difficult task ahead' - the UK Supreme Court revives Mastercard class action
14 December 2020
'A difficult task ahead' - the UK Supreme Court revives Mastercard class action
While a historic claim on behalf of 46 million citizens can now proceed the final outcome is by no means certain
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Claimant lawyers have hailed the UK Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to certify a ‘gargantuan’ class action against Mastercard as a victory for consumers .
A clear-cut victory for the 46 million British citizens in the class remains some way off, however, given the complexities of the case. ‘This is a momentous decision for enforcing consumer antitrust rights,’ Tweeted Law Society of England & Wales president David Greene, a class action litigator himself, despite commentary from Mastercard’s lawyers, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, pointing to the Supreme Court’s split decision.