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  Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill - Exception in Industrial Disease Cases From Ban on Costs Awards Covering No Win No Fee Success Fees and Insurance Premiums
  
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  @ MP voted aye not allow "no win no fee" success fees and related legal insurance premiums to be included in costs awarded in cases relating to damages for health impacts due to a breach of an employer's duty to their employee.
  @ MP voted no to allow "no win no fee" success fees and related legal insurance premiums to be included in costs awarded in cases relating to damages for health impacts due to a breach of an employer's duty to their employee.
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to allow "no win no fee" success fees and related legal insurance premiums to be included in costs awarded in cases relating to damages for health impacts due to a breach of an employer's duty to their employee. The Bill included provisions to generally stop the award of costs to cover such success fees and insurance premiums.
  
  MPs were considering the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill[1]. The motion passed in this vote was:
  
  :That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 32
  
  Amendment 32 stated[2]:
  :Insert the following new Clauseâ
  :''âException for industrial disease cases''
  :The changes made by sections [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2010-2012/0109/lbill_2010-20120109_en_4.htm#pt2-pb1-l1g43 43], [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2010-2012/0109/lbill_2010-20120109_en_5.htm#pt2-pb1-l1g45 45] and [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2010-2012/0109/lbill_2010-20120109_en_5.htm#pt2-pb1-l1g46 46] of this Act do not apply in relation to proceedings which include a claim for damages for a disease, condition or illness (whether or not resulting in death) resulting from any breach of duty owed by an employer to an employee.â
  
  The changes made by sections 43, 45 and 46 relate to:
  
  * Stopping the losing party in cases being required to pay "success fees" to laywers engaged under "no win no fee" arrangements.  (Fees can be recovered from clients in a manner to be regulated). 
  * Regulation of "no-win no fee" agreements requiring the success fee to be capped at a proportion of certain damages awarded to a client. 
  * Preventing the inclusion of insurance premiums for legal insurance in allocations of costs; even when those are paid by trade unions or other membership bodies.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/legalaidsentencingandpunishmentofoffenders.html Parliament's webpage on the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill (now an Act)]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2010-2012/0327/2012327.1-5.html Lords amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill]
  
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