Litigation analytics, a tool growing in popularity and already being deployed by several litigation funders, can reveal interesting legal trends and insights; a recent study of 5,000 judgments from the past decade has revealed that junior barristers’ win rates are almost on par with QCs. More from Law Gazette.
Rachel Rothwell, editor of Litigation Funding Magazine, describes how the entire litigation funding industry could be turned on its head by a UK Supreme Court decision that could potentially render most – if not all – litigation funding agreements unenforceable.
Law for Change, a new community interest litigation funder set up to support actions that could help change the law ‘for wider public good’, is making waves, having already backed several cases, including a High Court challenge to the government’s controversial Rwanda asylum policy.
Novitas has taken another hit, paying another £5.3m in compensation to divorce and probate clients who took out loans to fund their litigation.
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