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Litigation


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19 March 2008


Law Society Publishing


9781853289927


Paperback
234 x 156 mm
408 pages

Conditional Fees
A Guide to Funding Litigation, 3rd edition

Editors: Editor: Gordon Wignall

Overview

The fully updated third edition of this successful book provides thorough coverage of funding arrangements in litigation cases. This timely book is written with the many recent challenges to CFAs under the 2000 Regulations in mind, and offers up-to-date and practical guidance on success fees and ATE insurance.

It takes the reader through key background issues with a clear explanation of how to run a CFA case and a CFA litigation practice. It includes case material, guides to funding and other regulatory frameworks which are essential for practitioners to be familiar with. The book also provides:

  • chapters on specialist areas, such as commercial and media cases
  • the key regulations
  • codes of conduct
  • court rules
  • model agreements
  • real life risk assessments.

It is an ideal source of information for all those involved in litigation practice.


Contents

Part I - Underlying principles:
1. Basic principles;
Part II - CFA law and practice:
2. The regulatory framework;
3. Recoverability;
4. Enforceability;
5. Specific CFA issues;
6. Media proceedings;
7. Commercial litigation funding;
8. Litigation practice management;
9. Running a CFA practice;
10. CFAs and the Bar;
Part III - ATE insurance and other forms of funding:
11. Litigation insurance;
12. Non-CFA litigation funding;
13. Group litigation orders and cost capping;
Appendices.

About the Editors

Gordon Wignall is a barrister at No5 Chambers who specialists in costs and CFA law, as well as in environmental and other group actions. He is a former scholarship prizewinner of Gray's Inn and a part-time employment judge.

Stephen Green, the Consultant Editor, is the Costs Manager at Irwin Mitchell and is a fellow of the Association of Law Costs Draftsmen. A regular speaker at conferences relating to costs issues, he has a particular interest in Conditional Fee Agreements and their development in the personal injury and commercial market place.

Includes contributions by Matthew Amey and Robert Rose.