Talk:Contingent fee

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a contingent fee can simply be described as a fee paid for professional services, such as those of a lawyer, that is made only if the client receives a satisfactory result.

I added tags because:

1. The article is badly written, as it stands. For example, the 'discussion' confuses UK and US law. I don't have time to address that now, but it is very jumbled. Also, the writing style needs improvement. It is not encyclopedic.

2. The article is uncited. This is a problem, because when that happens, misinformation creeps in (and opinion) as was the case here. "Advantages" and "Disadvantages" were in dire need of repair. First, legal aid does not cover personal injury lawsuits in either the US or UK. If there is a country that allows this, then it needs to be cited. I deleted it entirely,unless and until someone can come up with a country that does. Second, the 'Disadvantages' section had a lot of opinion, with no citation. Further, many of the comments are redundant, as they were discussed under the US heading.jgwlaw 22:44, 17 July 2006 (UTC) This is what I have on the UK, and I need sources:

[edit] UK

In English law, conditional fees were introduced by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, but the relevant statutory instruments were not made until 1995. Initially, the success fee was not recoverable from the losing party, but on 1 April 2000 section 27 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 amended the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 to allow recovery of success fees from the losing party. The regulations that accompanied this change in the law (the Conditional Fee Agreements Regulations 2000) were far from clear, and the result was that a great deal of satellite litigation took place. On 1 November 2005 these regulations were revoked, and now it is much easier to enter into conditional fee agreements than was previously the case.