Wigg & Co - Ministry of Justice Reforms

• Success fees and after-the-event (ATE) insurance premiums will no longer be recoverable with the exception for ATE premiums covering the cost of expert reports in clinical negligence claims.
• A rise of 10 per cent in general damages for the claimant.
• The introduction of damages-based agreements, otherwise known as contingency fees, to allow lawyers to take a proportion of the settlement for work completed.
• Part 36 offers to settle will be amended “to equalise the incentives between claimants and defendants to make and accept reasonable offers.”

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The Old Library
8 Lower Green Road
Rusthall
Tunbridge Wells
Kent TN4 8TE

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5 October 2011 | Law Costs Draftsman | Costs Lawyer