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: Current AwarenessGloucestershire County Council v Evans and others - WLR Daily
By sally
Gloucestershire County Council v Evans and others: [2008] EWCA Civ 21; [2008] WLR (D) 25
“A conditional fee agreement which provided for payment of a basic rate of £95 per hour, with an enhancement first to £145 per hour as the basic charge on winning the case, and then to £290 per hour, in the event of success for risk element was not contrary s 58(4)(b) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 and art 4 of the Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2000 and was therefore enforceable.”
WLR Daily, 1st February 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Full post as published by Current Awareness on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).
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