Partner Chris Warren-Smith and associate Keir Baker wrote a Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation article examining how securities litigations are handled in England and Wales.
In the article, Chris and Keir comment on the lessons arising from recent procedural decisions of the English High Court about several claims brought by investors—under Section 90A and Schedule 10A of the United Kingdom’s Financial Services and Markets Act 2000—against various UK-listed companies, as part of the emergence of a growing market for these actions. In particular, they examine whether the “split trial” model—adopted in three different sets of proceedings in judgments from 2022—can be said to have become the blueprint for future securities litigations in England and Wales.
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