Litigation funding: Key updates from 2025 and what’s on the horizon for 2026

Helen Fairhead and Emma Foord of Norton Rose Fulbright describe how UK litigation funding in 2026 is emerging from the post-PACCAR reset with greater judicial tolerance for restructured LFAs, clearer authority that funders can be paid ahead of class members subject to CAT supervision, but heightened uncertainty over ultimate funder returns as the Tribunal actively revisits economics at settlement and distribution, all against a backdrop of impending legislation to reverse PACCAR and possible further reform of the opt-out collective regime.

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