In an article published on our global class actions hub, Jonathan Ripley-Evans and Fiorella Noriega del Valle of our Johannesburg office consider the process for certification of class actions in South Africa and the significant hurdles involved, as illustrated by the South African High Court’s refusal to certify a shareholder class action against a company’s directors in the case of De Bruyn v Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. and Others.
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