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Fee Agreements: Cheap at half the price
Julian Chamberlayne and Kerie Receveur review recent case law on retrospective and discounted conditional fee agreements In Designers Guild, counsel were not prepared to match their instructing solicitors and enter into a full no win, no fee CFA, but instead agreed to act only on the basis that leading and junior counsel would be paid …
Cases Referenced
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- Birmingham City Council v Forde [2009] EWHC 12 (QB)
- Designers Guild Ltd v Russell Williams (Textiles) Ltd (t/a Washington DC) [2003] EWHC 9024
- Gloucestershire County Council v Evans & ors [2008] EWCA Civ 21
- Holmes v Alfred McAlpine Homes (Yorkshire) Ltd [2006] EWHC 110 (QB)
- JN Dairies Ltd v Johal Dairies Ltd [2011] EWHC 90211 (Costs)
- King v Telegraph Group Ltd [2003] EWHC 1312 (QB)
- Motto v Trafigura [2011] EWHC 90201 (Costs); [2011] EWHC 90206 (Costs); [2011] EWHC 90209 (costs); [2011] EWCA Civ 1150
- Revenue and Customs v Blue Sphere Global Ltd [2011] EWHC 90217 (Costs)