Conditional fee or "no win no fee" agreements

If the solicitor can obtain an opinion from an appropriate chest or occupational physician that your asthma is occupational, or you already have such an opinion or a decision by the Benefits Agency, you should at this point be offered a conditional fee or "no win no fee" agreement by the solicitor. From now on, you should not be asked for any more money by the solicitor, who assumes the risk of taking on your case. The agreement means that if you lose or have to abandon your case on legal advice, you pay nothing for work done from the time the agreement is made. If you win or settle your case, your solicitor gets all or nearly all the cost of bringing the court action from your opponents, not from you.

Under this agreement, the solicitor will pay for insurance cover of up to £100,000 to protect you from having to pay the other side's charges if you lose or have to abandon your case.

Under this agreement, the solicitor will pay the money to others, which has to be paid during the case; otherwise you would have to pay this.

Providing your case is won or settled, the solicitor gets paid by the other side for work he has done and money he has paid out on your behalf. You are not likely to be asked to pay anything at all, because if you win or settle your case, the other side will pay all or nearly all of your legal charges.

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