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From: veritas on 13 May 2010 20:42
On 14/05/2010 10:29 AM, veritas wrote:
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>
> Contingency fee arrangements are quite common and most law firms will do
> it (even AU Legal Aid does it) when the lawyer is confident if a win.
>
> I had legal aid take on a matter for me (and won) which was a case that
> would not have been a normal legal aid case - so even the government
> does it. The win was around $14K - they took $2K - otherwise it would
> have been no-win-no-fee.
>
> Personal injury actions are probably the most common contingency fee cases.

I used legal aid (as a private client) because they quoted the lowest
fee contingent upon a win. Some private lawyers quoted double the fee
that I paid.
From: Noddy on 13 May 2010 20:56

"veritas" <veritas(a)ghntk.com> wrote in message
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> I used legal aid (as a private client) because they quoted the lowest fee
> contingent upon a win. Some private lawyers quoted double the fee that I
> paid.

You often get what you paid for.

I had a case a couple of years ago and hired a very competent legal team,
and while the costs were phenomenal the outcome was great.

--
Regards,
Noddy.


From: veritas on 13 May 2010 21:13
On 14/05/2010 10:56 AM, Noddy wrote:
> "veritas"<veritas(a)ghntk.com> wrote in message
> news:hsi6dn$usv$1(a)speranza.aioe.org...
>
>> I used legal aid (as a private client) because they quoted the lowest fee
>> contingent upon a win. Some private lawyers quoted double the fee that I
>> paid.
>
> You often get what you paid for.
>
> I had a case a couple of years ago and hired a very competent legal team,
> and while the costs were phenomenal the outcome was great.
>

Yeah - I wholly agree with your statement. In my case it was
cut-and-dried. The defendant had been already been convicted of a
criminal act which brought about my compensation claim.
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