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Budana v Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Law Society intervening)

Subject Matter

SOLICITOR — Costs — Conditional fee agreement — Claimant seeking damages for personal injury retaining solicitors under conditional fee agreement with 100% success fee — Claimant advised to transfer case to larger specialist firm — Deed of assignment purporting to assign retainer — Claimant subsequently signing conditional fee agreement with new firm — Claim settled and order for costs sought — Whether original conditional fee agreement effectively assigned — Whether novated — True effect of contractual arrangements between parties — Whether claimant entitled to recover success fee in costs despite novation after date on which success fees becoming irrecoverable — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c 10), s 44(6) — Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2013 (SI 2013/689), art 6

[2017] EWCA Civ 1980; [2018] 1 WLR 1965; [2017] WLR(D) 834, CA

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: Budana v Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Law Society intervening) [2017] EWCA Civ 1980; [2018] 1 WLR 1965; [2017] WLR(D) 834, CA

Barclays Mercantile Business Finance Ltd v Mawson [2004] UKHL 51; [2005] 1 AC 684; [2004] 3 WLR 1383; [2005] 1 All ER 97; [2005] STC 1, HL(E)

Davies v Jones [2009] EWCA Civ 1164, CA

Elwood v Goodman [2013] EWCA Civ 1103; [2014] Ch 442; [2014] 2 WLR 967; [2013] 4 All ER 1077; [2013] WLR (D) 342, CA

Geys v Société Générale, London Branch [2012] UKSC 63; [2013] 1 AC 523; [2013] 2 WLR 50; [2013] ICR 117; [2013] 1 All ER 1061; [2012] WLR (D) 394; Case details, SC(E)

Griffith v Tower Publishing Co Ltd, and Moncrieff [1897] 1 Ch 21, Ch D

Jenkins v Young Bros Transport Ltd [2006] EWHC 151 (QB); [2006] 1 WLR 3189; [2006] 2 All ER 798, QBD

Jones v Spire Healthcare Ltd [2016] 3 Costs LO 487

Kerdene Ltd v Wilkinson [2013] EWCA Civ 44; [2013] CN 181, CA

Linden Gardens Trust Ltd v Lenesta Sludge Disposals Ltd [1994] 1 AC 85; [1993] 3 WLR 408; [1993] 3 All ER 417, HL(E)

O’Brien v Benson’s Hosiery (Holdings) Ltd [1980] AC 562; [1979] 3 WLR 572; [1979] 3 All ER 652; 53 TC 241, HL(E)

Pan Ocean Shipping Co Ltd v Creditcorp Ltd [1994] 1 WLR 161; [1994] 1 All ER 470; [1994] 1 Lloyd's Rep 365, HL(E)

Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd (No 2) [2017] UKSC 23; [2017] 1 WLR 1249; [2018] 1 All ER 292; [2017] WLR (D) 223; Case details, SC(E)

R (Quintavalle) v Secretary of State for Health [2003] UKHL 13; [2003] 2 AC 687; [2003] 2 WLR 692; [2003] 2 All ER 113, HL(E)

Rhone v Stephens [1994] 2 AC 310; [1994] 2 WLR 429; [1994] 2 All ER 65, HL(E)

Scarf v Jardine 7 App Cas 345, HL

Southway Group Ltd v Wolff (1991) 57 BLR 33, CA

Thamesmead Town Ltd v Allotey (1998) 30 HLR 1052, CA

The Argo Fund Ltd v Essar Steel Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 241; [2006] 2 All ER (Comm) 104; [2006] 2 Lloyd's Rep 134, CA

Tito v Waddell (No 2) (Note) [1977] Ch 106; [1977] 3 WLR 972, Ch D

Tolhurst v The Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers (1900) Ltd [1903] AC 414, HL

Cases citing

Cases citing: Budana v Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Law Society intervening) [2017] EWCA Civ 1980; [2018] 1 WLR 1965; [2017] WLR(D) 834, CA

Cartwright v Venduct Engineering Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 1654; [2018] 1 WLR 6137; [2018] WLR(D) 451, CA

Corstorphine v Liverpool City Council (FHS Holztechnik GmbH, Part 20 defendants) [2018] EWCA Civ 270; [2018] 1 WLR 2421; [2018] WLR(D) 118, CA

Energy Works (Hull) Ltd v MW High Tech Projects UK Ltd [2020] EWHC 2537 (TCC), QBD

MW High Tech Projects UK Limited v Outotec (USA) Inc [2023] EWHC 2885 (TCC), KBD

Warren v Hill Dickinson LLP [2018] EWHC 3322 (QB), QBD

Commentary

Blackstones Civil Practice 2023
Entering into a CFA - Requirements for validity of CFAs - Personal injury CFAs 6.7

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