Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Litigation costs and third-party funding; 3 TPF and its alternatives: An economic appraisal; 4 'Playing the man not the ball'; 5 Legal costs awards and access to justice in Dutch intellectual property cases: How the IPR Enforcement Directive impacts on litigation and settlement behaviour in IP disputes; 6 'Mercantile adventurers'? The disclosure of third-party funding in investment treaty arbitration
7 Experimenting with conditional fees in the Netherlands8 Financial arrangements with litigation funders and law firms in Australian class actions; 9 Funding of mass claims in Germany: Caught between a rock and a hard place?; 10 Entrepreneurial motives in Dutch collective redress: Adding fuel to a 'compensation culture'?; Index