{"id":140,"date":"2006-12-11T20:42:59","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T17:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2018-12-28T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:09:32","slug":"class-action-to-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Class action to Finland, now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helsingin Sanomat,  the leading newspaper here, published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/docs\/hs_11122006.jpg\">my rant on class action<\/a> today as the top opinion piece. There is a conservative proposal in the parliament titled &#8220;An act on class action&#8221;. In reality, the act would give Finnish consumer ombudsman the right to file a class action in a very restricted number of cases under his area of expertise. The law does not apply to e.g. environmental or health related damages. Most importantly, citizens have no right to file a class action suit themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal is a joke that belongs to socialist times when the assumption was our state knows better. We don&#8217;t need civil rights nor consumer groups because we have official ombudsmen for all these tasks. The problem is the system ceased to work years ago. Obviously those who prepare these laws just didn&#8217;t notice &#8211; perhaps because they were creating this socialist system in the first place. When companies are global the role of national authorities is comparable to a &#8220;minor harm&#8221;, another easy negotiation partner. When things fuck up, the authorities in a consensus-oriented place like Finland are the last instance to consider anything like a suit.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, all Finnish citizens should have a general right to file class action suits in any type of case the citizens see fit with the help of any legal adviser they choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helsingin Sanomat, the leading newspaper here, published my rant on class action today as the top opinion piece. There is a conservative proposal in the parliament titled &#8220;An act on class action&#8221;. In reality, the act would give Finnish consumer ombudsman the right to file a class action in a very restricted number of cases &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Class action to Finland, now!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}