44 Conditional fee agreements: success fees
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (2012 c 10) | Legislation

Part 2 Litigation Funding and Costs

Payments for legal services in civil cases

44  Conditional fee agreements: success fees

(1)     In section 58 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (conditional fee agreements), in subsection (2)—

(a)     omit “aԻ” after paragraph (a), and

(b)     after paragraph (b) insert

“aԻ

(c)     references to a success fee, in relation to a conditional fee agreement, are to the amount of the increase.”

(2)     After subsection (4) of that section insert—

“(4A)     The additional conditions are applicable to a conditional fee agreement which—

(a)

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