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No win/No fee agreements for personal Injury legal claims

The term 'no win no fee' is used extensively and it can relate to a number of quite different agreements. Generally 'no win no fee' is used in the context of conditional fee agreements (cfas). Under such agreements, if you win your case, you must pay your solicitor's fees and any expenses for items such as experts' reports and barrister's or other solicitor's opinions. These are known as disbursements. If you lose, you need pay no fees to your solicitor. However, you may have to pay your opponent's legal costs and both sides' disbursements. Conditional fees are subject to regulations which set out what a solicitor must tell the client. A solicitor who does not abide by the regulations runs the risk of not getting paid at all, win or lose.