Third Party Funding - Legal Aspects (Jeremy Morgan QC, March 2008)
This paper was originally presented to the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association in March 2008.
The paper examines -
- definitions of maintenance and champerty;
- how the change in the law came about;
- the limitations on lawful third party funding arrangements;
- the consequences of a funding arrangement being held to be unlawful;
- the consequences of making a lawful funding arrangement;
- the special position of funding arrangements in personal injury cases;
- the choices now available to those advising potential litigants.