“…for a party in litigation in circumstances where the solicitor stands to gain more from the action if it is won than if it is lost.”: see Awwad v Geraghty & Co [2001] QB 570, 594B-C per Schiemann LJ (emphasis added).…”
“…In Awwad v Geraghty & Co [2001] QB 570 this Court held that it was contrary to public policy for a solicitor to act for a client pursuant to a conditional fee agreement in circumstances which were n…”
“… in certain cases, those cases must be taken to be the limits of what is permissible, and the courts should not create any further cases: Awwad v Geraghty & Co [2001] QB 570, 593G, 600E; Factortame Ltd (No 8), para 61.”…”
“… investigation into whether the old common law rule as to the unlawfulness of CFAs (derived from Wallersteiner v Muir [1975] 1 QB 373 and Awwad v Geraghty & Co [2001] QB 570) survived the amendments which came into force in 2000 (paragraph 2 above), or whether it is now more appropriate to categorise non-compliant CFAs as simply un…”