Practice and Procedure
TRACI HUGHES v NEWHAM LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL : CAROLINE OPOKU-DONKER v NEWHAM LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL : VALERIE THORNTON v NEWHAM LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL (2005)
PUBLISHED August 25, 2005Conditional fee agreements were unenforceable where the claimants' solicitors had failed to properly advise them as to the availability of, and their entitlement to, legal aid. The actual availability of legal aid had rendered irrecoverable the success fees and premiums for after-the-event insurance claimed in the cases.
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