The Hidden Cost of Vulnerability: Is Litigation Funding Keeping Pace with Access to Justice?
Nick McDonnell, costs lawyer and author of A Practitioner’s Guide to Vulnerability & Costs, considers whether litigation funding arrangements and recoverable costs regimes adequately account for the additional time, resources and expense required to support vulnerable claimants
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The Hidden Cost of Vulnerability: Is Litigation Funding Keeping Pace with Access to Justice?
Nick McDonnell, costs lawyer and author of A Practitioner’s Guide to Vulnerability & Costs, considers whether litigation funding arrangements and recoverable costs regimes adequately account for the additional time, resources and expense required to support vulnerable claimants
