On 1 April 2013, the legal landscape with regards to personal injury, changed with the implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Act. The Act was adopted in British Law as a means of discouraging dubious, exaggerated, or manufactured, personal injury claims from being pursued; a trend which has come to blight British society and has seen the emergence of a compensation culture in the UK. In short, the Act still enables claimants to pursue a personal injury case on a no win no fee basis. If the claimant is unsuccessful, he or she is still not expected to part with any money. The Act has, however, fundamentally altered the funding model of the no win no fee arrangement in a scenario where the claimant is successful. Previously, the ‘success fee’ in addition to the successful claimant’s legal costs was covered by the losing side. However, this is no longer the case. The ‘success fee’ is, henceforth to be paid by the successful claimant, and will be deducted from their settlement figure.
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