A little misuse of language.
Lawyer Sarah Saldmann, who scoured the television sets a few weeks ago claiming to have received 150 reports of victims of the Orpea group, is not in the process of mounting an American-style "class action" - "group action in French - as some might think.
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In France, this type of extremely supervised procedure made a timid start with the Hamon law of 2014. Since then, 30 group actions have been introduced, including 18 in consumer matters.
Indeed, as the National Bar Council (CNB) reminds us, class action is a
“procedure exercised only by consumer defense associations approved and representative at national level”.
Moreover, its scope is limited since it is "
open only in matters of consumption, public health, discrimination, competition, the environment and the protection of personal data, for victims of the same financial damage resulting from damage...
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