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Liability Risk and Insurance

Assessing the reasonableness of success fee

It was permissible for any conditional fee agreement to include a two-stage success fee and the reasonableness of the success fee had to be assessed at the time the agreement was entered into. The Court of Appeal so stated when disposing of two appeals concerning road traffic accidents.

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