CA upholds challenge to routine 100% success fee in low-value PI
Solicitors handling low-value PI claims since LASPO should have undertaken risk assessments before setting success fees – rather than just applying 100% across the board – the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Solicitors lose right to fees after ending retainer “peremptorily”
Solicitors who terminated their retainer “peremptorily” without investigating the circumstances of evidence that might have thrown the case into doubt have lost their claim to £8,000 in fees.
Firm that ended CFA after client rejected advice entitled to costs
A law firm which stopped acting for a client after she refused to heed its advice to accept an offer to settle her case is entitled to recover the £240,000 in costs due from her under a CFA, the High Court has ruled.
MPs and peers express concern about defamation ATE
After-the-event insurance premiums must continue to be recoverable in defamation cases, a committee of MPs and peers has told the government.
Law firm, funders and broker team up to launch IPEC product
A law firm, litigation funder, after-the-event provider and insurance broker have teamed up to launch a product to fund claims brought in the Intellectual Property and Enterprise Court.
Firm that transferred PI client to another practice loses fees claim
A law firm which closed down its personal injury department and passed on its client to another practice could not claim its fees at the end of her case because she had entered a new CFA.
High Court slashes success fee citing proportion of fees at risk
A district judge failed to consider the risks that a claimant solicitor should have taken into account when entering into a CFA and so was wrong to award a 65% success fee, the High Court has ruled.
New safeguard for costs payments from protected party’s damages
Solicitors will in future have to provide a bill or breakdown of costs when seeking payment of success fees and ATE premiums out of the damages of children or protected parties.
