Update On Proposed Reforms To Civil Litigation Funding In The UK

Since the publication of Lord Justice Jackson's report entitled "A Review of Civil Litigation Costs" in January 2010, it has been clear that change would be coming to the UK's civil litigation funding regime¹. Some felt that with the election of the country's first peace-time coalition government, and that government's inevitable preoccupation with issues of national debt, such changes would be put on the back burner, but a major overhaul of the current rules is now very clearly on the cards.

On 29 March 2011, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, The Right Honourable Ken Clarke MP, presented the Government's proposals for the reform of civil litigation funding. The proposals are based on Lord Justice Jackson's recommendations and take into consideration the responses to a consultation process conducted by the government between November 2010 and February 2011.