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The changing face of future litigation

Since the Woolf reforms were introduced in April 1999 the litigation system in England and Wales has been transformed, not least because of the wider use of conditional fee arrangements (CFAs).

The wider use of CFAs post-Woolf, which has brought about the ‘loser pays’ notion, was originally confined to low-level PI work, but recently firms such as Mishcon de Reya (28 September 2009) and Leeds-headquartered Walker Morris (19 October 2009) have moved into commercial CFAs in a bid to hold onto their clients.

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