Big CAT Watch

Future Developments

Changes are moving quickly through the Big CAT grasslands:

• In August 2025, the UK Government’s Department for Business & Trade began a review of the opt-out collective proceedings regime. In its call for evidence, the Government said that it was seeking to find the right balance between achieving redress for consumers and limiting the burden of the collective proceedings regime on business. Our response to the call for evidence is available here.
• In December 2025 the Ministry of Justice announce plans to introduce legislation to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision in PACCAR. That decision currently prohibits litigation funders’ returns from being calculated as a percentage of damages recovered (the result being that returns currently have to be calculated as a multiple of capital invested instead).