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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/823/made</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2000</dc:title><dc:subject>Legal services</dc:subject><dc:publisher>King's Printer of Acts of Parliament</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2016-03-11</dc:modified><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">LEGAL SERVICES</dc:subject>
					<dc:description>Under sections 58 and 58A of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, all proceedings may be the subject of an enforceable fee agreement except specified family proceedings and criminal proceedings other than those under section 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. This Order specifies the proceedings to which a conditional fee agreement must relate if it is to provide for a success fee. These are all proceedings which may be the subject of a conditional fee agreement except criminal proceedings under section 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.</dc:description>
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<Number>2000 No. 823</Number>
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<Title>LEGAL SERVICES</Title>
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<Title>The Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2000</Title>
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<Text>Made</Text>
<DateText>20th March 2000</DateText>
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<Text>The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 58(4)(a) and (c) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990<FootnoteRef Ref="f00001"/>, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having consulted in accordance with section 58A(5)<FootnoteRef Ref="f00002"/> of that Act, makes the following Order, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:</Text>
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<Text>This Order may be cited as the Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.</Text>
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<Text>In this Order “<Abbreviation Expansion="Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 c. 41">the Act</Abbreviation>” means the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.</Text>
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<Title>Revocation of 1998 Order</Title>
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<Text>The Conditional Fee Agreements Order 1998<FootnoteRef Ref="f00003"/> is revoked.</Text>
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<Title>Agreements providing for success fees</Title>
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<Text>All proceedings which, under section 58 of the Act, can be the subject of an enforceable conditional fee agreement, except proceedings under section 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990<FootnoteRef Ref="f00004"/>, are proceedings specified for the purposes of section 58(4)(a) of the Act.</Text>
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<Title>Amount of for success fees</Title>
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<Text>In relation to all proceedings specified in article 3, the percentage specified for the purposes of section 58(4)(c) of the Act shall be 100%.</Text>
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<PersonName>Irvine of Lairg, C.</PersonName>
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<DateText>Dated 20th March 2000</DateText>
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<Text>Under sections 58 and 58A of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, all proceedings may be the subject of an enforceable fee agreement except specified family proceedings and criminal proceedings other than those under section 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. This Order specifies the proceedings to which a conditional fee agreement must relate if it is to provide for a success fee. These are all proceedings which may be the subject of a conditional fee agreement except criminal proceedings under section 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.</Text>
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<Text>Under section 58(4)(c) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, the Order also sets a maximum success fee percentage of 100% for all conditional fee agreements which provide for such fees.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1990" Number="0041">1990 c. 41</Citation>. Section 58 was substituted by section 27(1) of the Access to Justice Act <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22" id="c00002" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1999" Number="0022">1999 (c. 22)</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text>Section 58A was added by section 27(1) of the Access to Justice Act <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22" id="c00003" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1999" Number="0022">1999 (c. 22)</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text><Acronym Expansion="Statutory Instrument">S.I.</Acronym> <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/1860" id="c00004" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1998" Number="1860">1998/1860</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/43" id="c00005" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1990" Number="0043">1990 c. 43</Citation>.</Text>
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