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Mastercard: Dispute over settlement rumbles on<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Access to Justice Foundation (AtJF) should not make more out of the Mastercard settlement than the funder who took all the risks, the High Court has been told.<\/p>\n

Innsworth Capital has confirmed that it is seeking a judicial review of last month\u2019s decision<\/a> of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) about how the \u00a3200m settlement should be distributed.<\/p>\n

As only the actual parties have the statutory right to appeal CAT rulings to the Court of Appeal on points of law, Innsworth said judicial review was the only option open to it.<\/p>\n

Despite continuing to consider the settlement itself too low, Innsworth is not challenging the decision to approve it but maintains its strenuous opposition<\/a> to the return awarded by the court.<\/p>\n

The CAT decided that the first \u00a3100m (pot 1) will be for consumers, with any unclaimed sums going to the AtJF.<\/p>\n

The second tranche of money will go to repay Innsworth the sums it has spent on the litigation, estimated at \u00a346m.<\/p>\n

The remaining cash (pot 3) will pay, in order, for: the relatively small other costs and expenses of claimant representative Walter Merricks for which Innsworth is not responsible; a 50% profit for Innsworth; supplementing the \u00a3100m in the event that more than 5% of the class submit claims; and then, if any is left, a donation to the AtJF.<\/p>\n

The CAT agreed Innsworth should see a \u201cprofit return\u201d but in assessing this noted: \u201cAlthough the settlement has secured a positive payment, the outcome of the present case is very far from a success for a class of some 44m claimants\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cA return on investment of 1.5 is here appropriate\u2026 recognising the significant risk but reflecting also the poor outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the grounds for judicial review settled by Charles B\u00e9ar KC of Fountain Court Chambers and Patrick Halliday of 11KBW, it is currently thought that the foundation could receive more than \u00a330m from pot 3 \u2013 compared to \u00a323m for Innsworth.<\/p>\n

Despite having taken all the risk, they argued, Innsworth would end up with less than a sixth of the \u00a3150m or so in net proceeds, a return \u201cfar below anything contemplated\u201d in the litigation funding agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only does Innsworth\u2019s position contrast strikingly with the benefit received by the class, but an entirely unconnected entity, the AtJF, stands to gain \u00a330m out of pot 3 (and potentially even more out of pot 1), substantially more than the profit allowed for Innsworth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe distribution to the AtJF can only be characterised as a windfall.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judicial review accuses the CAT of misunderstanding the Australian authority on which it based the 1.5 figure by wrongly including the finance costs when calculating Innsworth\u2019s return on investment. This meant it received a return of 0.5, rather than 1.5.<\/p>\n

Thus the profit should actually have been \u00a369m, or the whole of pot 3 except those unrecoverable costs.<\/p>\n

This would be in line with its suggestion that the CAT should have split the net (rather than gross) proceeds equally between the class and the funder.<\/p>\n

The grounds go on to say the tribunal failed in various other way, including by giving no weight to the agreed terms of the funding agreement, which envisaged a return of \u00a3520m on the sums spent.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince this had been agreed by the class representative on behalf of the class, it should have been for the class to justify any departure from its terms. Instead, the CAT wrongly proceeded on the basis that its supervisory jurisdiction over distribution meant that it started with a blank sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Innsworth could not recover that much \u201cdid not make the agreed level of return irrelevant\u201d.<\/p>\n

The CAT also \u201cfailed to appreciate that allocation as between funder and a putative gratuitous recipient, such as the charity, was not equivalent to allocation as between funder and victims of the wrongdoing\u201d.<\/p>\n

Innsworth continued: \u201cBy allocating the entire residual balance of monies in pot 3 to the AtJF, a charity with no interest or involvement in the proceedings, and no role in the statutory scheme for collective settlements (as opposed to the position where there is a judgment), the AtJF is liable to receive in the region of about \u00a330m, a sum greater than the entirety of the profit for a funder which has already paid out over \u00a341m to enable any benefit at all, and which is contractually entitled to a return.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mastercard: Dispute over settlement rumbles on The Access to Justice Foundation (AtJF) should not make more out of the Mastercard settlement than the funder who took all the risks, the High Court has been told. 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