| Summary: | "The relationship between government and class actions is a challenging one - combining leaps of faith, conflicts, tensions, and truly complex jurisprudence. Government may be the 'pursuer' in one class action, and the 'pursued' in another. It may (indirectly) fund one class action, and (indirectly) receive funding from another. It may draft one kind of class action regime, but actually implement a different type altogether. It may quite like the idea of its courts being at the hub of global class actions litigation, but hesitate (and actually legislate against) making that a reality for its own class action. These (and other) dichotomies and tensions make for an absorbing study. This book examines that relationship in detail, and in particular, analyses the following, and often controversial, roles of government: as class action enabler, as designer, as funder, as gate-keeper, as representative claimant, as class member, as defendant, and finally, as beneficiary"--
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