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Disclosure of funding arrangements<\/strong><\/p>\n

The High Court in the conjoined cases of Germany v Flatman and Barchester Healthcare v Weddall [2011] EWHC 2945 (HC) has ordered a law firm to disclose the details of its funding arrangements with two clients so the successful defendants can work out whether the solicitors financially supported the cases and could be pursued for a third-party costs order.
\nBoth cases were run by a Norwich based firm of solicitors under conditional fee agreements without after-the-event insurance. The defendants\u2019 common insurer \u2013 which suspected that the claims were funded to some extent by the solicitors \u2013 successfully appealed a refusal to grant disclosure of documents outlining the funding arrangements.
\nThe judge below, His Honour Judge Moloney QC, had said the impact of such orders \u201ccould be to undermine or perhaps even to destroy the workings of the CFA system\u201d, but Mr Justice Eady ruled that the judge \u201coverestimated the consequences of the defendants\u2019 applications\u2026 These appeals turn largely upon the particular facts. Either GMS were the funders or they were not\u201d.
\nThe implications this Judgment may have on the \u2018CFA system\u2019 are yet unclear, however Mr Justice Eady continued and stated that it may be necessary to make an order for disclosure of documents to help a \u201cvulnerable defendant, or for that matter his insurer\u201d establish what exactly passed between the claimant and his solicitor. Whether, following disclosure, an application for a third-party costs order is made, \u201cthat is a matter for the future\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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