Conditional Fees: A Guide to CFAs and Litigation Funding - Softcover

Wignall, Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853289922 ISBN 13: 9781853289927

Publisher: The Law Society, 2006

Synopsis

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; and real life risk assessments. It is an ideal source of information for all those involved in litigation practice.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Law Society
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853289922
• ISBN 13: 9781853289927
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Green Stephen