International collective redress conference: your guide to the event

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Thursday 7 May 2026 from 7pm – pre-conference drinks

Friday 8 May 2026 from 8.30am to 5.30pm – conference

Friday 8 May 2026 from 6.30pm – formal dinner and drinks

Welcome to the International collective redress conference, brought to you by the Bar Council with King’s College Centre for European Law. Join us for an engaging two-day event, beginning with an evening of pre-conference drinks riverside at the House of Lords, followed by a comprehensive full-day conference programme and a gala dinner at Gray’s Inn to conclude the event.

Thursday 7 May

Enjoy an evening drinks reception at the House of Lords, kindly sponsored by Epiq Global. Evening drinks are included with the conference ticket.

Friday 8 May

Join us for a full-day conference programme in-person at King's College, the Strand, London. Followed by a drinks reception and three-course gala dinner supported by Hogan Lovells.

What to expect from our conference:

Introduced by The Honourable Mrs Justice Kelyn Bacon, President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the conference will explore the new landscape of collective redress across the EU and the UK and compare and contrast practice and procedure for opt-in and opt-out class actions and group litigation
Gain insight on the most recent developments and impact for mass tort litigation across the EU
Explore the latest developments on identifying class members, selecting the class representative and certification on an opt-out or opt-in basis
Hear discussion from the claimant and defendant perspectives on how to prove (or defeat) an actionable breach across competition, consumer, data, environmental and regulatory breach claims
Hear leading experts discuss establishing the theory of harm and counterfactuals for quantifying different types of breach in mass tort claims
Our case management “bake off” compares practitioner and judicial perspectives on case management perspectives on core case management problems for mass claims
Gain practical insights on claims management and collective settlements and the latest on distribution

Gala dinner

Join us at Gray’s Inn for drinks and a three-course gala dinner to round off the conference programme with peers, colleagues and new connections. The dinner is kindly sponsored by Hogan Lovells.

Who should attend?

English and Welsh barristers, solicitors and European lawyers specialising in or interested in group litigation in the fields of competition, consumer, environment, product liability and data.

What is collective redress?

Collective redress refers to procedural frameworks that enable groups of individuals or businesses to bring claims collectively, particularly in fields such as competition, consumer protection, product liability, data protection and environmental law. Its central purpose is to enhance access to justice by enabling the aggregation of claims that would be economically or practically unviable if pursued individually.