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class action (1. in company law, an action by or on behalf of shareholders of a company. 2. generally, an action by one or more nominal plaintiffs for others. The idea is long established in the USA but is not yet widespread in the UK, where often a case is selected as a test case or a lead case and other similar cases are settled on the same basis. The practice of the legal aid Board facilitates a group approach in certain cases, such as disaster cases or pharmaceutical cases. CDL Alexander Demidov) |
