My office is in the process of being redecorated and this seemed like a good opportunity to have a general clear out. As part of this, I came across a couple of articles published in Litigation Funding magazine from February and April 2000. These show the dangers of trying to make predictions about the future […]
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For many years, a large number of personal injury solicitors have automatically charged their clients a 100% success fee regardless of the risks of the case. This has been a standard business model for many firms, with the reasoning being that this will usually lead to an automatic 25% cut of the client’s general and
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The other day I posted a link to a website showing some case summaries of various first instance decisions. One angry reader commented: “I’m surprised this is publicised on the blog as useful case summaries – will we now all be submitting every DJ decision and taking it as Gospel?” I see no reason to
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The government has, unsurprisingly, overturned all of the House of Lords amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill and, in particular, the one that sought to exempt all EL industrial disease cases from the end to recovery of success fees and ATE premiums. It is a perfectly arguable position to adopt
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Readers of Solicitors Journal will know I contribute a regular costs column. Somehow I usually manage to find something new to write about that hasn’t already appeared on the Legal Costs Blog. As part of our Costs Law Articles Archive project I will be uploading some of these old articles over the coming weeks. First
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Today I continue my examination of the calls for the Costs Lawyer Standards Board (CLSB) to introduce entity regulation of costs firms, in light of the decision in Kynaston v Carroll [2011] EWHC 2179. There appear to be two further arguments as to why entity regulation is required. The first one is that if Costs
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The proposed amendment to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill that I discussed yesterday has been causing no end of fuss (understandably) with at least one expert commentator advising against signing a client up to a CFA until the Bill is in its final form. However, further analysis of the proposed amendment
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One of the big issues concerning Jackson implementation is which date will be chosen for ending recoverability of success fees. Will it be by reference to the date of the accident date (as per the fixed RTA success fee regime) or the date the CFA was entered into (as per revocation of the CFA Regulations
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Is it possible to recover retrospective success fees? Read my article on the subject in the Solicitors Journal.
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I recently commented on the apparent contradiction between Andrew Dismore’s, co-ordinator of the Access to Justice Action Group, letter to the Guardian newspaper predicting that “there will be at least 25% fewer claimants” as a result of the proposed changes to the no win, no fee system and his other prediction, in relation to clinical
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