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Changes to court costs and civil litigation procedures, as recommended by Lord Justice Jackson’s wide-ranging review in 2010, came into force on 1 April this year as part of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO). This is the most significant change to the civil justice system since the Woolf reforms in 1999. It aims to eliminate methods of funding that increase costs, and to create a more efficient litigation procedure in order to reduce costs.
Section 44 of LASPO amends s.58 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (CLSA) to impose additional conditions on conditional fee agreements (CFAs).
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