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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-litigation-expenses-and-group-proceedings-scotland-act-2018/section-2",
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  "legislation": "asp/2018/10",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-litigation-expenses-and-group-proceedings-scotland-act-2018",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Enforceability",
  "text": "(1) A success fee agreement is not unenforceable by reason only that it is a pactum de quota litis (that is, an agreement for a share of the litigation).\n(2) Subsection (1) does not affect any other ground on which a success fee agreement may be unenforceable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 27.4.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/23, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/10/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:12.573518+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}