The bar offers a website to facilitate collective actions of individuals. Three actions have been included for the moment in which the highly publicized case Volkswagen. If you are concerned, a few clicks are enough to take part in the procedure. Explanations.
Unite you to resolve your disputes ! This is what is offered by the Ordre des avocats de Paris to all the subjects of France, from the 12 November, with the launch of a website dedicated to joint actions. Different group actions, these actions allow consumers to consolidate their individual complaints face the same prejudice. The interest is to allow victims to be civil parties to criminal proceedings and to increase their weight before the justice. To the bâtonnier of Paris, Pierre-Olivier On, it will offer “a new mode of access to the law”.
Thanks to the platform avocats-actions-conjointes.com users can take part in actions already existing in a few minutes. Accompanied by a lawyer or a consumer association, they have also the possibility to propose new. As with any remedy, the complainants must pay a fee for classic freely negotiated with the lawyers in charge of the dossiers. On the other hand, the use of the platform does not imply any extra cost.
Already a joint action against Volkswagen
For the moment, three actions have been launched on the platform. First to appear on the site, an action against Volkswagen aims to defend the interests of consumers claiming to be deceived by the manufacturer. As a reminder, the German brand is accused of having rigged the tests of pollution on some models : 950 000 vehicles are affected in France, according to the platform. “The public can expect between 10 to 20% of the purchase price of their vehicle,” says Charles Constantin-Vallet, the lawyer in charge of the case. For the filing of a complaint in this case, the fixed basic amount of the fees requested by the firm in paris reached 600 euros TTC.
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in addition, a further action has been opened on the deceptions and breaches of the duty of counsel on the part of professionals within the framework of operations of real estate tax under the laws Girardin, Scellier and Robien. Finally, a last resort to defend the people who invested in residences of tourism subject to the devices of tax exemption (leaseback censi, Demessine, and Censi-Bouvard). Some investors have not affected the rent originally agreed to by the managers.
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If you, yourself, you have been a victim of these prejudices, you can reach out to these procedures by filling in an online form and sending the necessary supporting documents. In the case of the action against Volkswagen, for example, you would need to provide a copy of the vehicle registration certificate and purchase invoice.