Access to justice or protecting the big end of town?

The temperature of the debate around class actions and litigation funding is heating up in New Zealand. The country’s biggest litigation funder LPF has sent a letter to the Law Commission in which it voiced its dismay over the “volume and shrillness in much of the recent negative commentary.” LPF also provided the Commission with statistics showing that of the 29 funded cases that have been settled in the last ten years, litigation funders’ profit has amounted to only 6% of the amount awarded or paid in settlement. More from newsroom.co.nz.