Recoverability as costs of CFA success fees and ATE premiums: Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd

Alexandra Allan

Recoverability as costs of CFA success fees and ATE premiums: Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd

Alexandra Allan

Department of Law and Criminology

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

Abstract

Assesses Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd (SC) on whether: (1) a conditional fee agreement (CFA) had been validly assigned to a new firm of solicitors established as a result of changes to the original firm; and (2) success fees were not recoverable because the amendments to the CFA to cover the conduct of appeal proceedings had been made after the commencement of legislative changes to the civil litigation costs regime.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	401-409
Journal	Civil Justice Quarterly
Volume	36
Issue number	4
Publication status	Published - 17 Oct 2017

Keywords

civil procedure
insurance
legal funding

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