About Us

The Proposed Class Representative

Mark McLaren is a consumer champion who has dedicated a large part of his career to fighting for consumers, across a wide range of sectors including housing.

Mark spent nine years working for The Consumers' Association, more commonly known as Which?. Whilst there, he worked on the successful campaign to require estate, managing and letting agents to join a redress scheme, as well as on reforms to the home buying process and leasehold reform.

Until 2023 he was a member of the Consumer Panel of the Legal Services Board and a non executive director of The Property Ombudsman. He has been an independent member of the Property Codes Compliance Committee, enforcing the CoPSO Search Code, since 2019, and also a long serving independent member of the General Optical Council's Fitness to Practice Committee.

In 2020, he filed a successful follow-on opt-out competition damages claim on behalf of millions of new car buyers. (https://www.cardeliverycharges.com). This claim was finally settled for a total damages sum of almost £93M in late 2025.

Mr McLaren has instructed two leading law firms to pursue the claims.

Geradin Partners

Geradin Partners is a specialist competition law firm with significant experience in collective proceedings before the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The firm acts for claimants in complex competition damages claims, including collective actions concerning Google and Amazon’s platform practices. It has particular expertise in digital and consumer markets and works closely with leading economic experts to develop robust, evidence-based claims.

Litigation Funding

Burford Capital are funding this claim. Burford is the world's largest global finance and asset management firm specialising in litigation finance and risk management. Founded in 2009, they provide capital to law firms and corporations to pay for legal costs, manage risk, and monetise pending legal claims.