Tag: champerty
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09 November 2023
Commercial litigation podcast series – Episode 21: General update
30 October 2023
Litigation funding agreement may be enforceable in part despite Paccar decision: High Court finds there is "serious issue to be tried"
25 September 2017
Consumer claims to recover allegedly unlawful charges were validly assigned to claimant company
The High Court has found that a company was able to bring a claim in its own name to recover allegedly unlawful charges paid by third …
15 May 2015
Claim assigned to SPV not struck out as champertous
The High Court has refused to strike out a claim as champertous where it had been assigned to an LLP in which the assignor had a one-third …
01 November 2011
Assignment of claim void for champerty
In the context of litigation funded by third parties the courts have taken an increasingly liberal approach to the principles of champerty and …
09 March 2007
Recent case on champerty
The recent case of Mansell v Robinson [2007] EWHC 101 (QB) has demonstrated the court's modern, more flexible approach to the rules against champerty. …