Sentences with phrase «litigation claims ultimately»

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Lawyers will now be able to advise their clients with greater certainty, and this will help reduce litigation costs and ultimately promote greater access to justice for meritorious claims.

The initially promised affordability of the «unitary patent» and Unified Patent Court (UPC) especially for small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs), which was repeated almost mantra - like throughout the EU legislative proceedings as one reason why the reform was of utmost importance, ultimately turned out to be pretty much the opposite, with the level of representation costs to be reimbursed by the losing to the winning party amounting to up to more than five times the sum which can currently be claimed in patent litigation proceedings before the German courts (for more details on the cost situation created by the reform, cf. the article «Unitary patent and court system — A poisoned gift for SMEs» here).

For those parties in the group litigation who succeed in their individual claims, the logical conclusion is that they have «won» their case and, by extension, payment of their costs should be covered by the «losing» defendant; but in the event that the winning parties ultimately make up a minority of the larger claimant group, it could be argued that, as a whole, the claimants are the «losing» party, responsible for the defendant's costs.

Ultimately, this may well result in increased litigation based on Article 8 claims.

However, should it ultimately be decided that bank charges are unfair under the Regulations, the banks each face the potential for significant litigation into the future, by not only individuals acting for themselves, but potentially, in the larger cases (claims exceeding # 5,000), by class action specialists.