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Costs: Assignment of conditional fee agreements
Paul Jones examines the complications caused when a recent claim was passed to new solicitors ‘In conducting its analysis of the competing positions, the court started from the well-recognised principle that only the benefit of a contract can be assigned, not the burden, but that there were certain limited exceptions where it was permissible.’With all …
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- Alina Budana v Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (2016) Unreported, Kingston-Upon-Hull County Court, DJ Besford, 4 February
- Davies v Jones [2009] EWCA Civ 1164
- Jenkins v Young Brothers Transport Ltd [2006] EWHC 151 (QB)
- Tolhurst v Associated Portland Cement [1902] 2 KB 660