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Contingency fee agreements are a type of fee arrangement commonly used in legal cases where a lawyer is only paid if the matter is successful. In other words, the attorney's fee is contingent upon the case's outcome. When to use Contingency Fee Agreements?
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The Private Funding of Legal Services Act, 2020 (the Act ), which was gazetted on 7 January 2021 but is not
yet in force, seeks to bring the Cayman Islands position on
litigation funding in line with the well-established regimes in
other common law jurisdictions. The Act will open up the world of
litigation funding to litigants in the Cayman Islands by abolishing
criminal and civil liability for maintenance and champerty and
making statutory provision for entering into litigation funding
agreements without the sanction of the Court.
Litigation funding can be loosely divided into three