OpenLegislation

Regulation 3 Definition of “collective conditional fee agreement”

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, a collective conditional fee agreement is an agreement which—

(a)

disregarding section 58(3)(c) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, would be a conditional fee agreement; and

(b)

does not refer to specific proceedings, but provides for fees to be payable on a common basis in relation to a class of proceedings, or, if it refers to more than one class of proceedings, on a common basis in relation to each class.

(2)

An agreement may be a collective conditional fee agreement whether or not—

(a)

the funder is a client; or

(b)

any clients are named in the agreement.