UK litigation reforms to introduce contingency fees
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[w] The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced a radical package of reforms to England & Wales’s civil litigation funding regime, alongside significant proposed changes to the lower levels of the civil courts system.
The Lord Chancellor, Ken Clarke MP, announced the introduction of contingency fee arrangements alongside contentious reforms to the current system of conditional fee agreements (CFA), to add greater flexibility of provision and tackle a perceived rise in legal costs.
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