The Case

The claim related to the Safari Workaround by which Google circumvented the default iPhone security settings in order to harvest browser generated information of users.

The Case

Therium is funding a class action brought before the Federal Court of Canada for damages arising from Amazon’s anti-competitive agreements with third-party sellers on the Amazon platform, which restricted those sellers from selling products on other e-commerce sites for prices lower than the prices charged on Amazon. This is alleged to have had the effect of raising prices on other e-commerce platforms and maintaining artificially high prices on the Amazon platform.

Though this claim is being brought on a standalone basis in Canada, it takes place in the context of ongoing investigations by the European Commission and other regulators into Amazon’s conduct more generally and Amazon’s practices having already been found to be anti-competitive by the German Federal Cartel Office. The funding arrangements have been approved by the Canadian Federal Court.

The Case

Therium funded the historic legal battle over a faulty computer system called Horizon. Claims were brought by 550 sub-postmasters for loss and damages suffered as a result of shortages in their accounts, which were either wrongly generated or were unable to be understood, addressed and corrected or properly investigated. The case ultimately settled after a hard-fought battle including two trials and two failed attempts to appeal and one failed application to have the judge recuse himself by the Post Office.