Articles, tagged with "conditional fee agreements", page 2
02nd October 2008
Why is it that more than 2.5 million people in the UK have accidents each year, and very few claim compensation for their injuries?
Seeking compensation for pain and suffering is your civil and legal right and you would be daft to not claim. Why shoul...
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Author:
Carolyn Clayton
09th September 2008
The term no win no fee is often used although it is seldom understood. No win no fee is an agreement that is set out by a personal injury lawyer where he agrees to work for you for no fee. Once you sign a no win no fee agreement or conditional fee agreeme...
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Author:
Helen
09th September 2008
No win no fee is also known as conditional fee agreements. They were introduced when Legal aid was still available for personal injury claims. It was done primarily with the purpose of helping people with incomes above legal aid eligibility limit, to fund...
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Author:
Kirthy
02nd September 2008
Although compensation claims have been the object of many if not all courts of law from the early 1950s, in our more recent times people now look for what are called no win no fee compensation claims. These claims are actually conditional fee agreements s...
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Author:
Lindsay Nolan
17th August 2008
The reputation of ‘no win, no fee' cases has been tainted in the last few years due to a number of high profile cases.
It is argued that this concept effectively replaced legal aid for routine accident claims in 2000, with a ‘misleading' tag-line ...
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Author:
Christian Ward
16th August 2008
Conditional Fee Agreements have been in place since 1995 but when they were first introduced they only covered a limited number of cases until it was extended in 1998 to cover all civil cases, with the exception of family proceeding.
The introduction o...
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Author:
Christian Ward
25th July 2008
The recent controversy about Cherie Blair using a no win no fee firm for her libel case in the courts has highlighted what is perceived as the latest abuse of the system which was created to provide access to justice ten years ago. This article aims to ...
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Author:
Saurav Dutt
25th July 2008
With constant criticisms of the no-win-no-fee system prevalent in almost every news story associated with the scheme, this article aims to underline and explain the essential features and benefits that were originally aimed to help people gain easier acce...
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Author:
Saurav Dutt
24th July 2008
No-win-no fee arrangements were originally created to provide transparency and easier access for justice for claimants. Its primary aim was to play a central role in ensuring this access for genuine claims. For many consumers, it is the main way to righ...
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Author:
Saurav Dutt
03rd July 2008
Millionaire footballer Ashley Cole is the latest wealthy celebrity to take advantage of the "access to justice" no-win, no-fee media-law regime to sue news organisations. He is suing the publishers of tabloid newspapers The Sun and The Daily Mirror over s...
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Author:
Sofia Abasolo
17th June 2008
In the past ten years the advertising of No Win No Fee claims by insurance companies featuring mundane accidents has become unavoidable. Everyday minor injuries such as whiplash, slipping or falling are constantly on our television sets.
The message t...
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Author:
Sofia Abasolo
13th June 2008
It has been ten years now since no win no fee rules were extended and applied to the majority of civil court cases. Many feel that this has changed the face of personal injury law and certainly altered the publics' perception of personal injury lawyers.
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Author:
Carys Robshaw
06th June 2008
We have approached the ten year anniversary of Conditional fee agreements (CFAs), or no-win no-fee deals-and the advent of media has helped many solicitors to proudly advocate their services. The consensus behind the idea ten years ago was that it would p...
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Author:
Saurav Dutt
05th June 2008
In the past ten years the advertising of personal injury solicitors by insurance companies featuring mundane accidents has become unavoidable. Everyday minor injuries such as whiplash, slipping or falling are constantly on our television sets.
The mes...
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Author:
Sofia Abasolo
04th June 2008
Many newspapers have complained recently of the unfairness of being ‘held to ransom' by lawyers acting on a no win no fee basis in libel cases.
Tony Jaffa, a media lawyer, says that in most cases, regional newspapers cannot defend themselves because...
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Author:
Carys Robshaw
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