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However, a London tribunal gave the proposed claimants' lawyers
up to six months to "have another go" at establishing any
alleged losses by users.
Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of the Facebook group,
faces a mass action brought on behalf of around 45 million
Facebook users in Britain.
Legal academic Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, who is bringing the case,
says Facebook users were not properly compensated for the value
of personal data they had to provide to use the platform.
Her lawyers last month asked the Competition Appeal Tribunal to
certify the case under the UK's collective proceedings regime –
which is roughly equivalent to the class action regime in the
United States.
But the Tribunal ruled on Monday that Lovdahl Gormsen's
methodology of establishing any losses suffered by Facebook
users needed "root-and-branch re-evaluation" for the case to
continue.
Judge Marcus Smith did, however, give Lovdahl Gormsen's lawyers
six months to "file additional evidence setting out a new and
better blueprint leading to an effective trial".
A spokesperson for Meta said the company welcomed the decision
and referred to its previous statement that the lawsuit is
"entirely without merit".
A spokesperson for Lovdahl Gormsen declined to comment.
(Reporting by Sam TobinEditing by Tomasz Janowski)
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