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Bill · started in the Commons

Compensation (Limitation) Bill

A Bill to prevent conditional fee agreement success fees and after the event insurance premiums being recoverable from the losing party in civil litigation; to facilitate damages-based agreements for contingency fees in respect of successful litigants; and for connected purposes.

In progress Current stage: 2nd reading (Commons)

The story so farThe Compensation (Limitation) Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 21 October 2010 by Mr Christopher Chope (Conservative). It is now at second reading in the House of Commons. Second reading is the first debate on the overall principle of the bill; if the bill clears it, detailed committee scrutiny follows.

Progress through Parliament

  1. 1st reading Commons 21 Oct 2010
  2. 2nd reading Commons Current

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 1 May 2012.