... non lawyers. However the money to pay for this service is met by the Community Legal Service Fund. Another way to tackle a legal problem is conditional fees, conditional fees were first allowed by section 58 of the courts and Legal Services Act 1990 in personal injury, insolvency and human rights cases. By 1998 the use of conditional fees was extended to all civil cases except family cases. Under the Access to Justice Act 1999 conditional fees form an important role of the Government strategy for funding civil cases. Conditional fees provide a new way for people to bring there cases forward. The lawyer and client agree on the fee which would normally be charged for such a case. The agreement states what the lawyers 'success fee' will be. This can be an 'uplift' of up to 100% of the agreed normal fee. If the lawyer does not win the ...

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