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FOCUS OF THE DAY: A conditional fee agreement (CFA) can be assigned, a court has held, in a decision that will affect thousands of cases. Ruling in the county court at Liverpool in Jones v Spire Healthcare (Appeal No 96/2015) this week, Judge Graham Wood QC held that an insolvent firm of solicitors can validly assign its entitlement and responsibility under a CFA with a client to another firm of solicitors. Full story - New Law Journal
FOCUS OF THE DAY: A conditional fee agreement (CFA) can be assigned, a court has held, in a decision that will affect thousands of cases. Ruling in the county court at Liverpool in Jones v Spire Healthcare (Appeal No 96/2015) this week, Judge Graham Wood QC held that an insolvent firm of solicitors can validly assign its entitlement and responsibility under a CFA with a client to another firm of solicitors. Full story - New Law Journal
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