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Law Reports - Commentary - Shake-up will see end of 100% success fee.
(From Post Magazine)
Byline: Adam Lidster, BLM London.
From 1 June 2004, all road traffic accident cases that occurred after 5 October 2003, and which are funded by conditional fee agreements, are subject to a fixed success fee of 12.5% for cases that settle before trial and 100% for those that go to trial. Exceptional cases, such as complex high-value claims, will be subject to individual assessment.
The Department for Constitutional Affairs has also announced that an agreement, adopting the RTA model, has been reached on success fees in employers' liability cases. This is fixed at 25%, unless the CFA is funded by a members' organisation, such as a trade union, in which case the success fee is 27.5%. While it is unlikely that these fixed uplifts will be applied until the autumn, it is possible these figures will be adopted in the interim and those ...
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- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports March 25, 2007 700+ words
...transcript (English section) of the Secretary for Constitutional Affairs, Mr Stephen Lam, speaking to the media at the polling...AsiaWorld-Expo today (March 25): Secretary for Constitutional Affairs: The election of the third-term Chief Executive...
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- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 23, 2003 700+ words
...subcommittees in the Somali peace talks in charge of constitutional affairs has sharply disagreed on the issue of federalism. The...report on how they think appropriate to handle the Somali constitutional affairs. Reports say majority of the 40-member committee...
- Hong Kong constitutional affairs official to visit Beijing.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 18, 2002 700+ words
...Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hong Kong's Secretary for Constitutional Affairs Stephen Lam will lead a delegation to visit Beijing...released on Wednesday [18 December]. A spokesman for the Constitutional Affairs Bureau said Wednesday that the visit is conducted under...
- Department of Constitutional Affairs selects Mercury IT Governance...
- Newspaper article from: Telecomworldwire September 20, 2004 700+ words
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