Post-PACCAR litigation funding

The CJC working group, set up following the Supreme Court’s PACCAR decision in 2023, which found certain third-party funding agreements to be invalid, is co-chaired by Dr John Sorabji and Mr Justice Simon Picken. It published an interim report last week but has not yet made any recommendations.

The CJC is also conducting a review of the Solicitors Act 1974. Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, said: ‘The CJC understands that there will be areas of overlap between the work of that group and the litigation funding group.’