Class actions in the EU — the Irish ban on litigation funding and Slovakia's zero

Directive 2020/1828 gave Europeans the right to collective consumer actions, but Ireland, where Big Tech has its European headquarters, bans third-party litigation funding under a law from 1634. In Slovakia not a single claim has been published in three years; in Czechia two actions emerged in two years. We are tracking the Irish reform, the first Slovak filing and the ICCL's case against Microsoft.

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Írsky zákon z roku 1634 brzdí žaloby proti Big Techu v EÚ. Slovensko nepodalo ani jednu

EÚ dala Európanom v roku 2020 právo na hromadné žaloby proti korporáciám. V Írsku, kde majú Meta či Google sídla, ich blokuje zákaz financovania…

25.8.2026

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Ireland's Law Reform Commission published its report on third-party litigation funding.
The Irish government waived court fees for qualified non-profits bringing collective actions.
The first claim notice appeared in Slovakia's Commercial Bulletin.
A court ruled in ICCL v. Microsoft, or the case ended in a settlement.
The European Commission published its assessment of how member states implemented the representative actions directive.

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