Class Action and Its Role in Consumer Protection Law

The inefficiency of civil procedure rules, the producers’ high profit and low value damages suffered by consumers has made legal systems find some solutions so that justice would be performed at the best. Class actions civil procedure is a common way first anticipated in USA legal system and has overwhelmed all European countries as well as many developing ones. Iran has no appropriate solution to settle class actions despite getting involved the same problems. In this research we comparatively study class actions and also investigate current situation of Iran laws and finally we conclude that current laws should be reviewed.