Tag Archive: CFA

“Cherry picking” solicitors ruin CFA theory – Jackson.

Lord Jackson

My regular reader of this blog knows I have been following the Jackson review of costs over the past 18 months or so. Lord Jackson has issued his response to the consultation paper issued by the Ministry of Justice  in November last year (if you want to add your response you’d better hurry, the consultation…

Does Naomi Campbell’s case affect personal injury CFAs?

European Court Human Rights

In MGN Ltd v The United Kingdom the European Court of Human Rights declared that the CFA regime – as it applies to breach of confidence cases – violates Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The judgment clearly has serious implications for breach of confidence and privacy cases but does it have…

Solicitors' duties and Conditional Fee Agreements

Rosa Dickinson of St Philip’s Chambers writes in this months PI Bief Update on the decision in Jones v Attrill [2008]. Challenges were made to a number of Conditional Fee Agreements on the basis that the solicitors had an interest in a particular policy because they were members of the Accident Line Protect scheme and so…