A Bill to prevent conditional fee agreement success fees and after the event insurance premiums being recoverable from the losing party in civil litigation; to facilitate damages-based agreements for contingency fees in respect of successful litigants; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
Sir Christopher ChopeConservative
1 May 2012
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This Bill would stop the losing party in a civil case from having to pay back certain legal costs, specifically the success fees charged under conditional fee arrangements and the premiums for after-the-event insurance. It would also allow damages-based agreements, i.e. contingency-style fees for lawyers in successful civil cases. In short, it changes how civil litigation costs are recovered and how lawyers can be paid.
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