The class action had undergone an extremely sinuous and complicated historical evolution. With origins that go back to XIIth century Medieval English Law, it has been subjected countless times to reforms and reconfigurations in order to adapt it to the needs of a certain era. Initially build as an instrument for the strong and few in their fight with the many and weak, the class action had transformed into a useful and efficient instrument for...

In the Romanian juridical space, recent years have witnessed a series of fundamental reforms aiming at both substantive law and procedural law, and resulting in the adoption of new codes, the Civil Code and the Code of Civil Procedure. Yet, the legislature, and even the doctrine, have not been concerned with certain issues of practical importance. One of these issues regards the jurisdiction of a trainee judge. In this paper, after an overview...