Gary Hickinbottom calls for proper screening of group actions. Gary Hickinbottom is a partner at McKenna & Co.
On 19 July, Justice Ian Kennedy struck out the last of the benzodiazepine cases as an abuse of process and for inordinate delay. The litigation began in 1988. There were about 17,000 claimants who made allegations of adverse effects against the manufacturers and prescribers of these products, which were designed to relieve anxiety and were […]