Author: Marek Hlavenka

  • The Guardian: Public could receive hundreds of millions as water firms face sewage lawsuit

    The Guardian: Public could receive hundreds of millions as water firms face sewage lawsuit

    The public could receive hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation in the first class action against water companies which are alleged to have failed to reveal the true scale of raw sewage discharges, and abused their position as privatised monopolies. Read more

  • Landmark class action claim targets wastewater companies

    Landmark class action claim targets wastewater companies

    Law firm Leigh Day plans to file the UK’s first-ever “environmental” collective action against several wastewater companies accused of breaching the country’s antitrust rules, a week after an economic consultancy urged the country’s competition authority to open a probe based on the same allegations. Read more

  • Litigation funding secured for opt-out competition claims against UK water and sewerage companies

    Litigation funding secured for opt-out competition claims against UK water and sewerage companies

    Law firm Leigh Day plans to file the UK’s first-ever “environmental” collective action against several wastewater companies accused of breaching the country’s antitrust rules, a week after an economic consultancy urged the country’s competition authority to open a probe based on the same allegations. Read more