Historically, children from the Fields have had the right to attend primary school in Pagford, a place of flower baskets and other middle-class comforts, and the town has also supported a drug-treatment clinic that serves the neighborhood.

NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch

In the British Airways lawsuits, lawyers representing a pair of flower importers tried to enlarge the class to include hundreds of additional plaintiffs who supposedly lost money due to the air-freight cartel.

FORBES: U.K. Holds Off Class-Action Tide, For Now