No win, no fee? Not quite.
Despite what its nickname says, conditional fees arrangements (no win, no fee) can still result in a losing plaintiff having pay the other side's costs. Steve Banner looks at protections against this.
Free legal aid comes with a hefty price tag. Last year governmentexpenditure on legal aid rose to £1477m, a whopping 115% increase on the
£682m a year paid out at the start of the decade.
The Lord
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