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End of LASPO exemption for insolvency “will lead to unscrupulous behaviour”
Friday, 3 June 2016A large majority of insolvency practitioners and lawyers believe the end of the exemption for insolvency litigation from the abolition of recoverable success fees and insurance premiums in conditional fee cases will lead to “unscrupulous or illegal behaviour” by company directors, a survey has found.
Tags: conditional fees, insolvency, LASPO
Posted in ATE/CFA, News
Gordon-Saker: Newspaper’s rights not breached by success fees and ATE recovery
Tuesday, 19 January 2016A newspaper’s right to free expression under Article 10 of the European Convention was not breached by being ordered to pay success fees and ATE insurance premiums, Master Gordon-Saker has ruled. The defendant, MGN, said it was prepared to take its case to the Supreme Court.
Tags: conditional fees, European Court of Human Rights, insurance premiums, Success fees
Posted in ATE/CFA, News
Government confirms 1 October 2016 date for fixed costs in clinical negligence
Thursday, 14 January 2016The introduction of fixed recoverable costs in clinical negligence cases is still planned for 1 October 2016, the Department of Health has confirmed. The news came as independent research of the pre-LASPO regime concluded that conditional fee agreements gave people on middle incomes access to justice and did not result in “a feast of ambulance-chasing”.
Tags: access to justice, conditional fees, medical negligence
Posted in ATE/CFA, News
Law firm loses 50% of costs for hiding existence of second CFA and BTE
Thursday, 27 August 2015A district judge has decided to halve the costs awarded to claimant solicitors for unreasonable and improper conduct in concealing from the paying party the existence of a previous conditional fee agreement and before-the-event insurance.
Tags: conditional fees, improper conduct, medical negligence
Posted in ATE/CFA, BTE, News
High Court refuses 100% success fee because trial had not started
Friday, 8 May 2015The High Court has refused to allow a personal injury claimant a 100% success fee on the grounds that a trial had not started before the case was settled, even though a hearing had begun.
Tags: conditional fees, High Court, personal injury, Success fees
Posted in ATE/CFA, Jackson reforms, News
Government abandons plan to end LASPO insolvency exemption
Thursday, 26 February 2015Justice minister Shailesh Vara has announced that the government has decided to drop its plan to extend Sections 44 and 46 of LASPO to insolvency cases “for the time being”.
Tags: conditional fees, insolvency, LASPO
Posted in ATE/CFA, News
Indemnity insurers must cover cost of firm’s disbursement loans
Wednesday, 4 February 2015Indemnity insurers must cover the cost of disbursement loans taken out by clients if law firms default, the Court of Appeal has ruled, overturning a High Court decision.
Tags: ATE insurance, conditional fees, Court of Appeal, Indemnity insurance
Posted in ATE/CFA, News
Neuberger and Dyson to head seven-judge panel for Coventry
Friday, 9 January 2015The president of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, and Lord Dyson, the Master of the Rolls, will head a seven-judge panel for the eagerly awaited Coventry costs hearing on 9 February, it has been announced.
Tags: conditional fees, Coventry, Jackson, Supreme Court
Posted in Jackson reforms, News
Seven applications to intervene in Coventry costs battle
Monday, 22 December 2014The Supreme Court will next month hear seven applications to intervene in a case which raises the question of whether the previous system of recoverable conditional fee success fees and insurance premiums was unlawful.
Tags: ATE insurance, conditional fees, Coventry, Supreme Court
Posted in ATE/CFA, Jackson reforms, News