Collective redress : broadening EU enforcement through state liability?

MARSON, James and FERRIS, Katy (2016). Collective redress : broadening EU enforcement through state liability? European Business Law Review, 27 (3), 325-351.

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Abstract

This article advances an argument that private enforcement of European Union (EU) rights has largely been stunted due to a series of blocking tactics by Member States, enabled through a form of tacitic subservience of the Court of Justice of the European Union to these States. Currently, State Liability is neither an effective system of redress under tortious liability, nor a genuine enforcement mechanism in domestic law. By enabling collective redress in State Liability, we present an argument, missing explicitly in current literature, that both as a viable remedy through the (UK’s modified) tort of breach of statutory duty, and through granting effective redress through action by the EU Commission, State Liability will become the mechanism for corrective justice the Court of Justice envisaged in 1991. In 2011, the EU Commission issued a non-binding Recommendation establishing collective redress for breach of competition law. Could this be seen as positive positioning by the EU to seize the initiative for greater access to individuals of justice and justiciable solutions?

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Law Research Group
Page Range:	325-351
Depositing User:	James Marson
Date Deposited:	22 May 2015 15:33
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2021 17:01
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9834

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