Mass Tort Litigation in Georgian Law
When a single event injures many people, international practice answers this with institutions of collective litigation. Clarity is needed here: Georgian law has no class action, that is, no mechanism for representing an unknown multitude of victims through one suit. The procedural regulation of group claims remains a separate matter decided by other legislation. What the Civil Code does give in this field is a single consolidating instrument, solidarity of liability: in a multi-victim scenario each victim builds an individual claim, but the allocation of liability among the debtors follows the rule of solidarity. It is precisely the deliberate use of this construction that distinguishes a strong mass strategy from a scattering of separate suits.