CFAs/"No Win No Fee" cases aren't being scrapped

A video appeared on the Guardian today, which, unfortunately, is based on a false belief - that No win, no fee agreements are going to be scrapped/severely limited.

They're not.

There's nothing in the government's "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill" (Part 2 has the planned changes to legal costs) - or the Jackson Report (PDF) on which it's based - about scrapping these things.

At most, all they are going to do is make "success fees" - a bonus payable to the solicitor and/or barrister for winning a case on a CFA - unrecoverable from the losing side.

This has no bearing whatsoever on CFAs themselves, or access to justice generally.

Lawyers will always take a case on if they consider that it has a decent chance of winning.

For what the government does plan to do, I refer to my three previous posts. Tweet