Part 3: Powers for dealing with domestic abuse Section 53: Proceedings not to be subject to conditional fee agreements
This section amends section 58A of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 so as to add proceedings under Part 3 of the Act that take place in the family court or the Family Division of the High Court to the list of proceedings that cannot be the subject of an enforceable conditional fee agreement. Conditional fee agreements allow clients to agree with their lawyers that the lawyer will not receive all or part of his or her usual fees or expenses if the case is lost; but that, if it is won, the client will pay an uplift to the solicitor in addition to the usual fee.