A report seen by The Times supports the adoption of US-style contingency deals in which lawyers take their fees out of damages won for clients. The report, sent to the country’s ...
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Beresfords often banked more money for its work on a coal health claim than the total sum of damages awarded to its client. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal heard yesterday of ...
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A Doncaster solicitor thought it was "unfair" not to be able to take success fees from compensation payouts to sick miners, a tribunal has heard. James Beresford, 58, along with ...
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Jim Beresford, 58, pocketed more than £23million in 2006 – the vast majority from claims made to the Government's coal health compensation scheme. Prosecuting Timothy Dutton QC ...
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The economic crisis has claimed its first significant victims in the legal sector, with a 10-partner London firm among the recent casualties. Saunders Solicitors was wound up in ...
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LAWYERS have charged London health trusts £75million to deal with medical negligence claims in the last three years, it was revealed today. Figures show patients received ...
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On Monday 4 May 1896, Alfred Harmsworth published his first Daily Mail. Now see how what goes around comes around. Harmsworth's triumph was inventing a paper that appealed to a ...
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