Advocatus Summit: “Portugal will be the country with the highest level of litigation in class actions within the EU” (with Gonçalo Anastácio and Manuel Martinho Lopes Rocha)

At the 8th edition of the Advocatus Summit, SRS Legal Partner Gonçalo Anastácio explained that competition law, consumer law and the macro-structure relating to litigation in these areas derive ‘to a large extent’ from European Union law. ‘There is an external influence here, but it is a legal order that is also ours, that of European Union law, and therefore it is an area that has been developing a lot from a regulatory point of view in recent decades,’ he says.
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Taking the example of the United Kingdom, SRS associate Manuel Rocha considers that they already had some consumer protection legislation, but are now bringing the type of prohibited practices closer to the list of prohibited practices in the European Union, giving the example of fake reviews.