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Collective redress: broadening EU enforcement through state liability?

Marson, James; Ferris, Katy

Authors

James Marson



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. 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 nonbinding 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?

Citation

Marson, J., & Ferris, K. (2016). Collective redress: broadening EU enforcement through state liability?. European Business Law Review, 27(3), 325-351

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 8, 2016
Publication Date 2016
Deposit Date Feb 25, 2019
Print ISSN 0959-6941
Publisher Kluwer Law International
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 27
Issue 3
Pages 325-351
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1583522
Publisher URL http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/abstract.php?area=Journals&id=EULR2016015