LAUSR

Billed as the largest damages claim in the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) history, and now destined for Supreme Court adjudication, the case of Merricks v Mastercard Inc (‘Mastercard’) will undoubtedly come to be viewed as a key reference point in the jurisdiction’s class actions law for years to come. As the second claim to be filed under the class action statutory regime – which permits either stand-alone or follow-on actions arising from infringements of competition law, and which was implemented in the United Kingdom on 1 October 2015 (‘the UK Competition Law Class Action’) – its precedential importance cannot be overstated. The case is controversial, large in scope and in quantum, and raises legal points of interpretation which have focal and wide-ranging ramifications for the operation of the regime as a whole.