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  Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - Clause 41 - Regulation of No-Win No-Fee Arrangements
  
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  @ MP voted aye against increased regulation of no-win no-fee arrangements for charging for legal services including capping success fees. 
  @ MP voted no in favour of increased regulation no-win no-fee arrangements for charging for legal services including capping success fees. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted in favour of increased regulation no-win no-fee arrangements for charging for legal services including capping success fees. 
  
  MPs were considering the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill[1]. The amendment rejected by this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 21, page 29, line 6, leave out Clause 41.
  
  Clause 41[2] titled ''Conditional fee agreements: success fees'' introduced increased regulation on the use of no-win no-fee (or no-win low fee) arrangements for charging for legal services; including capping  fees to be paid on success as a fraction of damages, with the maximum level to be set out in secondary legislation. 
  
  The explanatory notes to the Bill explain the effect of provisions within Clause 41 :
  
  :They require the CFA [Conditional Fee Arrangements (eg. no-win no-fee)] to cap the success fee at a percentage of certain damages awarded to the client if they win. The cap and the kinds of damages to which it applies are to be prescribed by the Lord Chancellor. These provisions will be of particular importance in personal injury claims, for example, where it is proposed to exclude damages for future care and loss from the calculation of any success fee.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/legalaidsentencingandpunishmentofoffenders.html Parliament's webpage on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill (now an Act)] 
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2010-2012/0235/cbill_2010-20120235_en_4.htm#pt2-pb1-l1g41 Clause 41 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2010-2012/0109/en/12109en.htm Explanatory notes to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill]
  
  
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