Proposals for reform of civil litigation funding and costs in England and Wales - Ministry of Justice - Closes 14th Feb 2011
Wed, 17/11/2010 - 6:13pm
The reforms here are related to Legal Aid, though more broadly encompass "No WIN No Fee" and other forms of civil litigation.
Proposals for reform of civil litigation funding and costs in England and Wales
Reference Number : CP13/10
Status: Open
Open date: 15 November 2010
Close date: 14 February 2011
This consultation seeks views on implementing a package of Lord Justice Jackson's proposals for reforming conditional fee agreements and other aspects of civil litigation funding and costs.
The consultation closes on Monday 14 February 2011. You are encouraged to use the online questionnaire to provide your response.
- Proposals for reform of civil litigation funding and costs in England and Wales (PDF 0.46mb 108 pages)
- Online consultation questionnaire
- Consultation questionnaire (Word 0.31mb 16 pages)
- Impact assessment: Overarching Jackson proposals (PDF 0.21mb 16 pages)
- Impact assessment: Proportionality (PDF 0.14mb 14 pages)
- Impact assessment: Qualified one way costs shifting (PDF 0.15mb 15 pages)
- Impact assessment: Litigants in person hourly rates (PDF 0.15mb 15 pages)
- Impact assessment: Reform of Part 36 (PDF 0.22mb 16 pages)
- Impact assessment: General damages increase (PDF 0.26mb 13 pages)
- Impact assessment: Damages based agreeements (PDF 0.22mb 16 pages)
- Impact assessment: Conditional fee agreements (PDF 0.48mb 43 pages)
- Table for collecting statistics (Excel 0.04mb 3 pages)
- Crynodeb gweithredol (PDF 0.02mb 3 pages)
PDF version
On 15 November 2010, the Ministry of Justice published a consultation on ‘Proposals for the Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales’.
The Ministry of Justice states that ‘[t]his consultation seeks views on proposals for reform of legal aid in England and Wales. The proposals represent a radical, wide-ranging and ambitious programme of reform which aims to ensure that legal aid is targeted to those who need it most, for those cases in which legal advice or representation is justified.’
The consultation closes on 14 February 2010.
On 15 November, the Ministry of Justice also published a consultation on ‘Proposals for reform of civil litigation funding and costs in England and Wales’. This consultation seeks views on implementing a package of Lord Justice Jackson’s proposals for reforming conditional fee agreements and other aspects of civil litigation funding and costs. It also runs until 14 February 2010.
Click here for link to Legal Aid consultation
Click here for link to civil litigation consultation
Click here for for information from the Law Society on ‘Defending legal aid’
Click here for information about the proposals on the Rights of Women website
http://www.edf.org.uk/blog/?p=8344