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MONEYWEB app instead? Judge condemns attorneys and Road Accident Fund for not protecting child claimants Judge Denise Fisher in the Gauteng High Court says she shudders to think what has occurred in thousands of cases By Tania Broughton 21 Apr 2021  13:24  Image: Moneyweb A judge has uncovered maladministration, and possibly also fraud and corruption, in Road Accident Fund (RAF) payments involving child beneficiaries. Attorneys are not protecting the interests of children who are due set...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Private Funding of Legal Services Act, 2020 (the "Act"), which was gazetted on 7 January 2021 but is not yet in force, seeks to bring the Cayman Islands position on litigation funding in line with the well-established regimes in other common law jurisdictions. The Act will open up the world of litigation funding to litigants in the Cayman Islands by abolishing criminal and civil liability...

Millions of dollars ended up in the hands of the taliban who then carried out an attack like the suicide bombing against lieutenant colonel cabrera. leland: one of the knocks against you, what happened to these families, the lawyers end up with all the money and families get pennies on the dollar if you prove this case. is there criticism? >> i dont think so. we are offering a contingency fee so we dont get paid unless we are paid in court. what this lawsuit is about is getting some measure of j...

Whats going on. its going to slow down the other cases through the appeal and youre going to see that the bulk of these cases coming behind are going to be careful about committing to this theory until they know what the court of appeals are going to do with it. >> this is half a billion dollars. the plaintiffs had been seeking $17 billion, so this is 1/34th. do victims families or victims see any of this? does this go to communities? where does the money go? >> in this case it sounds like what ...

There is no coincidence. boies has about the worst record of ethical charges and ethical alleged violations of any prominent lawyer in american history. people have gone after him for everything. weinstein. he once paid money to witness on a contingency fee. the better the outcome, the more money he would get. he was accused of having to close relationship with a client in giving her free legal advice. one judge in federal court in new york said even a first-year ethics student would know that w...

Prominent lawyer in american history. people have gone after him for everything. weinstein. he once paid money to a witness on a contingency fee. the better the outcome, the more money he would get. he was accused of having to close relationship with a client in giving her free legal advice. one judge in federal court in new york said even a first-year ethics student would know thatrk what boies did was essentially unethical. why is he going after me?nt i have to tell you. i have a theory. i thi...

Court today pleading not guilty to fresh ails of money laundering, conspiracy, making false statements about foreign lobbying. the charges are ill call piling up up really. what do you think his strategy is to get out of the trouble he is? jack, what do you think. >> paul manafort has three path go to trial. i certainly wouldnt take that on a contingency fee. he can hold out for a pardon. i think that a pardon is becoming increasingly dangerous for the president. and he is unlikely to see it hap...