Ministry of Justice to reduce success fees in defamation cases
March 4th, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Legal
The latest on changes to libel and defamation, from the Ministry of Justice:
Justice secretary Jack Straw has taken action to lower the maximum success fees that lawyers can charge in defamation cases from 100 per cent to 10 per cent.
Straw’s Statutory Order amends the Conditional Fee Agreements (CFA) Order 2000 and is subject to approval from Parliament.
The Ministry of Justice has also published responses to its ‘Controlling costs in defamation proceedings’ consultation. More than 53 per cent of 57 responses were in favour of reducing maximum success fees.
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