Risk Assessment in Litigation: Conditional Fee Agreements, Insurance and Funding

""This new work will ensure that practitioners and insurers have all the information and guidance they need to assess the risk of a case in a practical and effective way and learn to develop strategies to identify and manage risk in litigation. It covers the law and principles of conditional fee agreements as well as considering the insurance and funding aspects. In-depth and up-to-date coverage of risk assessment Practical case studies consider the use of conditional fee agreements in key practice areas: personal injury, clinical negligence and insolvency Considers ethical questions of litigating under conditional fee agreements, whether solicitor or barrister Relevant materials extracted into the text for easy reference Helpful tables set out calculations for payment and for funding of disbursements Guidance on how firms should organise themselves to ensure successful management of the risks involved in litigation under CFAs Considers the new collective conditional fee legislation Includes supplement covering Callery v. Gray and Sarwar v. Alam""

Reprinted with ISBN: 9781845927523