Multi-party actions

The Law Society provides an information service for multi-party actions. If you are a solicitor and need to identify the lead solicitors in a multi-party action or would like further information about multi-party actions you can contact us. If your firm is already participating in, or contemplating participation in an action, contact us so that we can record the details.

Multi-party actions occur when a significant number of claimants have closely related or similar claims arising from the same event. They fall into three broad categories:

• Sudden disasters such as personal injury or fatal accident claims, including damage to property. The Paddington rail crash is one such example.
• Rolling claims which are claims arising from a single cause such as an allegedly defective drug or product.
• Consumer claims where the claims are related to defective goods or services, personal injury or financial loss, such as mis-sold endowment policies.

You can read the Law Society booklet: Disaster litigation, practice guidelines for solicitors.

Tel: 0870 606 2522
Fax: 020 7316 5541
E-mail: practiceadvice@lawsociety.org.uk

If you are a member of the public and need to find out which solicitors are acting in a particular multi-party action, please call the Solicitors Regulation Authority on 0870 606 2555.