Employment
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has announced plans to regulate “no-win-no-fee” agreements in employment tribunal cases.
Concerns have risen in recent years that clients are being exploited by unscrupulous lawyers who take huge slices out of their damages, fail to provide them with proper information, and lock them into unreasonable deals.
The MOJ proposes to introduce provisions in the Coroners and Justice Bill, currently before Parliament, that will cap the percentage of damages that can be recovered by the legal representative and require them to: provide clear and transparent information on total costs; clarify what deductions from the award will go towards their fee; and provide explicit information on alternative methods of funding.
