These draft regulations should hopefully come into force next year. For reasons that pass all understanding contingency fee agreements (the sort of thing that New York Plaintiff attorneys use to extract payment for their services by way of a percentage of the damages recovered) have been lawful in employment tribunal proceedings notwithstanding that they are very much unlawful in normal civil litigation. It was something to do with the fantasy of employment tribunal proceedings being classified as non-contentious business. Anyway MOJ is going to regulate these agreements - most importantly putting a cap on the percentage that can be stolen from the compensation as costs by the representative - 25%. See http://www.justice.gov.uk/consultations/docs/damages-based-agreements-regulations.pdf for more info.
On the Naughty Step – a “gratuity for us being fantastic landlords”.
Landlord conduct in a rent repayment order claim.
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It has been a while, but today felt like the right time to revive the
tradition of the NL Naughty Step, prompted by a First Tier Tribunal
decision on a r...
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