MGN v The UK [2008] ECHR 1255; [2011] ECHR 66

Costs: A ‘claims culture’

The implementation of the Jackson reforms, as announced by Kenneth Clarke on 20 March 2011, sees a return to the way litigation was funded 15 years ago, as Glenn Newberry finds out ‘For those who missed the CFA revolution: it’s gone, you’ve missed it. For those who’ve made their fortunes out of it, it seems …

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Costs: Model awards

Andrew Hogan considers whether we have reached the end of success fees ‘The hearing before the House of Lords took place prior to the quantification of the success fees, so argument took place without the hard figures to hand.’ On 18 January 2011, the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights handed down …

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