Whipping up a storm

Rachel Rothwell argues that funders are right to be worried about the year ahead, with a Civil Justice Council review underway in the UK considering statutory regulation, caps on funding returns and a duty to disclose the presence of funding. For Rachel, the most pressing concern is the need for a government reversal of the PACCAR ruling, which has forced funders to adopt a new approach to structuring their litigation funding agreements which is now under attack by defendants, with a Court of Appeal ruling on the issue due to be heard before the end of July.