Overview Of The CJC's Final Report On Litigation Funding

The Civil Justice Council's (CJC) Working Party on Litigation Funding, co-chaired by Dr John Sorabji and Mr Justice Simon Picken, published its Final Report on Litigation Funding on 2 June 2025. This is the second of two reports produced by the CJC following the UK Supreme Court decision in R (PACCAR) v Competition Appeal Tribunal, which cast doubt on the validity of many existing litigation funding agreements (LFAs) by determining that the LFAs used by the claimants in those proceedings were a form of damages-based agreement (DBA).

In its Final Report, the CJC has made 58 recommendations for the reform of litigation funding. Its cited aims are to promote effective access to justice, the fair and proportionate regulation of third-party funding, and improvements to the provision of other forms of litigation funding. The view of the CJC is that litigation funding should continue to develop organically alongside the overall litigation funding landscape, and so it