Changes Could Clean Up Industry - or Cut Access to Justice
Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › May 13, 2011
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CHANGES to the law proposed by Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke aim to cut the number of "spurious claimants" by taking more legal costs from the winning claimant's damages.
"No win, no fee" arose from the Government's decision in the 1990s to remove entitlement to legal aid for civil public liability cases, to cut the cost of bankrolling the claims.See the full content of this document
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Changes Could Clean Up Industry - or Cut Access to Justice
The system transfers the financial risk to firms which now take on the majority of cases that...
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