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.”
- Costs in criminal cases (general)(Amendment) Regulations 2012 came into force on the 1st October 2012 in the UK. The main impact of the regulations is that the recovery of defence costs will be capped at legal aid rates.
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2 Aug 2021 | Law Costs Draftsman | Costs Lawyer