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SUMMARY:Litigation funding for class actions concerning environmental har
 m claims
DESCRIPTION:Since the litigation involving BHP and the Ok Tedi mine in Pa
 pua New Guinea in the late 1990s\, there has been an increasing trend to
 wards recognising litigation funding as well as class actions as effecti
 ve modes of supporting litigation designed to redress the wrongs associa
 ted with environmental harm.  Some of these strategies have been mooted 
 in connection with concerns about climate change. Judges and advocates w
 ill discuss the trend towards recognising litigation funding across vari
 ous jurisdictions\, as well as the different ways in which class actions
  have been recognised and supported. How these have been utilised in con
 nection with various types of claims involving litigation over the envir
 onment will be addressed and explained\, as will the scope for taking gr
 adual advantage of these litigation strategies.\n
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