Litigating Conspiracy. An Analysis of Competition Class Actions
- Publisher:
- Irwin Law Inc.
- Publication date:
- 2006-08-31
- Authors:
- Stephen G.A. Pitel
- ISBN:
- 9781459313781
Description:
The articles in this collection focus on the intersection of competition law and class actions. They consider the role that class actions can play in achieving an optimally competitive market for goods and services and in providing compensation for those who have suffered as a result of anticompetitive conduct. They examine key issues such as the appropriate test for class action certification and acceptable methodologies for calculating damages, and in doing so, they bring to bear the views of legal academics, economists, and experienced practising lawyers. This book grew out of a symposium held at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario in late March 2005. The symposium brought together Canadian academics working in either the competition or class action field, practitioners involved in competition class action cases, judges who had heard some of these cases, and American academics who contributed a valuable comparative law perspective. The speakers each contributed an article to this collection, as did many of the commentators.
Index
- Preliminary Sections
- Foreword
- Litigating conspiracy: an introduction
- Competition class actions: an evaluation of deterrence and corrective justice rationales
- Coordinating private class action and public agency enforcement of antitrust law
- Imperfect information and conspiracy class actions
- The investment theory of class actions
- Antitrust class actions: chaos in the courts
- Class certification in the microsoft indirect purchaser litigation
- The united states experience with competition class action certification: a comment
- The certification of competition-related class actions in Canada
- Conspiracy class actions: evidence on the motion for certification
- Class actions against multiple defendants in Quebec: the issues of legal interest and standing to sue
- Avoiding pitfalls and potential conflicts in negotiating class counsel fees and obtaining court approval
- Jurisdictional issues in international cartel cases: a Canadian perspective
- An american perspective: comment on the articles by J.J. Camp, Donald Houston, and Jeanne Pratt
- The role of economics in class certification and class-wide impact
- Estimating damages from price-fixing
- Compensation for the class: ascertaining and distributing damages in a competition class action
- Table of cases
- Index