Risk assessment in litigation : conditional fee agreements, insurance and funding / David J Chalk.

London : Butterworths, 2001.

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Actions and defences -- Great Britain.

Lawyers -- Fees -- Great Britain.

Practice of law.

Cost.

Part 1. The Regulation of litigation funding: 1. The Common law

2. The Professional rules

3. The Modern statutory regime

Part 2. Conditional fee agreements made after 1 April 2000: 4. The Statutory regime

5. The Agreement

6. Giving information to the client

7. The Law Society Model CFA for personal injury cases

8. Recoverability of the success fee

9. Collective conditional fee agreements

Part 3. Conditional fee agreements made before 1 April 2000: 10. The Statutory regime

Part 4. Conditional fee agreements made between 1 April and 3 July 2000: 11. The Transitional provisions

Part 5. Conditional fee agreeements between solicitors and the Bar: 12. Model agreements

Part 6. Other funding agreements: 13. Is it a conditional fee agreement?

Part 7. Insurance and funding: 14. legal expenses insurance

15. After the event insurance

16. Informing clients

17. Recoverability of insurance premiums

18. Funding

Part 8. Costs orders against third parties: 19. Third parties and conditional fee agreements

Part 9. Risk assessment: 20. Principles of risk assessment

21. Methods of risk assessment

22. Risk and success fees

23. Probability

24. Decision trees

Part 10. Cases studies: 25. Personal injury case study

26. Clinical negligence case study

27. Insolvency case study

28. Contractual dispute case study

Part 11. Non-money claims: 29. Conditional fee agreements and risk assessment in non-money claims

Part 12. Questions and answers: 30. Questions and answers.

Risk assessment in litigation.

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