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Spanish cartel damages claimants shouldn't bear costs where harm was hard to quantify, EU court opinion says

By Andrew Boyce
  • 22 Sep 2022 12:58
  • 22 Sep 2022 12:58
Companies that only partially succeed in cartel damages suits in Spain shouldn’t be required to pay half the costs of the case if the result is due to the difficulty or “practical impossibility” of quantifying the harm, according to an opinion for the EU’s top court.
Such a requirement would

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Andrew Boyce

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Andrew is a reporter covering merger reviews and competition policy for MLex in Brussels. He joined MLex in 2015 and holds a degree and a master’s degree in history from the University of Liverpool.

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