Should The James Hardie Class Action Pullout Change The Way We Think About Litigation Funding?

John Bowie of LawFuel argues that the suggestion by many critics in the wake of the James Hardie case that funders should be required to support a case for a mandated period of time is not a viable option and misses the central takeaway from the case, which is that the aggrieved litigants were able to access justice as a result of the funding, even though the outcome was not what the plaintiffs or the funder would have wanted. Read more.