Comment Re:On what grounds could one sue? (Score 1) 56
You don't have Class Actions in the UK? How telling...
It's not so simple. The following is an amateur explanation of how things work. Perhaps someone can explain it better? The UK has loser pays on legal fees. Once one person wins a lawsuit on a common basis, others can expect to win also. If the company lost those cases in court (as would now be very likely), the company would be liable for both sides' legal bills in lots of individual cases. So, after losing one representative case in what would be class action in the USA, a defendant has a very strong incentive to settle the others. People who would be in a class in the USA can band together to fund the initial representative case.
Thanks for the explanation, that does help.
But I still don't like the "Loser Pays" rule, when there is a big difference between the resources of an individual trying to sue a well-heeled company (let alone the government) with the sheer legal might to run roughshod over almost any arguments or experts the lowly individual might bring to the bar. But that's a discussion for another time.