Our Conditional Cost Agreement (CCA)
sets out the terms of the plan
If we agree to work for you under our No Win, No Fee Plan*, we will offer to sign a Conditional Cost Agreement (CCA) with you.
The most important terms are:
- We will only charge you our legal fees (including any fees payable to our London Agents) if we are able to recover them from the Estate.
- We will only charge our legal fees once the matter is finalised and an Award paid by the Estate.
In the very unlikely event that that amount of the settlement monies payable under the Award was are not enough to cover our fees, we shall reduce our fees so that the total fee is equal to the settlement monies. This way you know that you would not need to pay us any money from your own pocket.
Whatever is left from the settlement monies, after we have taken our fees would go straight to you. We do not charge a percentage of the settlement amount.
If we recover nothing, for you we shall not charge you any fees.
In the unlikely event that you must travel to England you will need to pay your own travel expenses: every other expense including all fees payable to our London Agents in England are covered by the CCA. We would of course claim all of your expenses from the estate. Make a claim.
So remember:
- We always start with an Initial Review on the phone, and if we cannot help you, or if you decide not to ask us to commence a Will Dispute for you, we will not charge you a cent.
- Then, before taking legal action we always make a Formal Assessment, to confirm that we believe you have a valid claim. We do not commence legal proceedings unless we feel sure that you have an entitlement.
- You will always have the security given by our CCA: see bullet points above.
- If you sign our Conditional Cost Agreement (CCA), under our No Win No Fee Plan* we will usually fund the whole case for you and we only charge our legal fees if we can get them paid by the Estate.
- Under the CCA you need not pay a cent from your own pocket (travel expenses excepted).
In the most unlikely event that our Total Legal Expenses exceeded the amount you recovered from the Estate, we would reduce our fees to the amount you actually received from the Estate, so you would not be out of pocket. This is not likely to happen to you, as we always make a careful Formal Assessment of each claim before we start court proceedings, but it is good for you to know. Find out if you're eligible.