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Code of Conduct for Litigation Funders
TheJudge• November 14th, 2011
A reception was held at Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand on 23rd November to launch the Code of Conduct for Litigation Funders and the Association of Litigation Funders. It was hosted by Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger … Continued
Honest litigation funding advice
TheJudge• November 14th, 2011
All too often in the financial services market, firms describe themselves as brokers when in fact they are acting in the specific interests of a single product provider or a small group of such organisations, rather than the whole market. … Continued
Allianz ProzessFinanz pulls out of funding litigation
TheJudge• November 14th, 2011
Allianz Litigation Funding has announced that it has ceased considering new applications for litigation funding. For many this has not come as much of a surprise as Allianz were becoming less visible in the litigation finance sector by comparison to … Continued
New low cost litigation funding through TheJudge
TheJudge• November 14th, 2011
TheJudge is pleased to announce that as part of our on-going programme to deliver new products to the legal market we now have access to a new breed of litigation financing. Historically, many have associated third party litigation funding as … Continued
Unfair Disclosure – Does the Notice of Funding reveal too much?
Matthew Amey• October 31st, 2011
Amongst other purposes, the N251 Notice of Funding allows an insured client to notify the opponent in litigation that they have taken out After the Event insurance (‘ATE’). In October 2009, the rules regarding the Notice of Funding changed. It … Continued
Making the Step Up
Matthew Amey• October 20th, 2011
The advantages and disadvantages of stepped premiums, in comparison to other methodologies, has been covered by previous editions of Litigation Funding but it is now impossible to refute that the stepped premium methodology is the dominant structure in the after-the-event … Continued
A Different Way
Matthew Amey• October 1st, 2011
Now that the Jackson Costs Review has jumped back to the top of the agenda, the inevitable frantic lobbying over the proposals has started afresh. One of the first out of the starting blocks was Matthew Amey, director at TheJudge … Continued
TheJudge Comments on ATE Insurance within International Artbitration Cases
TheJudge• September 14th, 2011
International arbitrations are particularly costly and usually lengthy proceedings, but the damages available to be claimed by such proceedings are often very substantial and compensate for any inconveniences and the drawn-out nature of this process. For this reason, third party … Continued
Hybrid Fee Arrangements in a non-recoverable regime
TheJudge• September 14th, 2011
Whilst TheJudge is often asked about the consequences of the potential changes to the recoverability of After the Event insurance (‘ATE insurance’) premiums, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill is also putting forward that Conditional Fee Agreement … Continued
