Access to justice a critical analysis of recoverable conditional fees and no win no fee funding
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
John Peysner, Professor of Civil Justice, University of Lincoln, UK.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Houndmills, Basingstoke
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction --;The development of funding --;The theoretical context --;The access to justice movement --;Legal aid, conditional fees and labour --;The policy process: replacing legal aid by recoverability --;Where did the recoverability policy come from? --;Economic psychological insights into the process of claiming and agreeing damages and costs --;The cost war and its casualties : frogs and temperature --;Could it have been different? an alternative evidence-based approach --;A suggested approach --;The future of funding : Jackson --;Conclusion: evidence-based policy and civil justice reform.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This book addresses an experiment in funding money damage claims in England from 2000 to 2013. The model - recoverable conditional fees - was unique and has remained so. It covers the development, amendment and effective abolition of the model, as well as the process of policy development and the motivation and objectives of the policy makers.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Contingent fees -- England.
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
KD482
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C66
Book number
J646
2014
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
John Peysner, Professor of Civil Justice, University of Lincoln, UK.