Stage 1 Report on the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Bill

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Overview
Report
- Executive Summary
- Glossary
- Membership changes
- Introduction
  - Background to the Bill
    
    Scottish Civil Courts Review
    
    Review of Expenses and Funding of Civil Litigation in Scotland
  - Overview of the Bill
  - Related policy developments
  - Justice Committee consideration
  - Consideration by other Committees
- Access to justice
  - Is there an access to justice problem?
  - Will the Bill improve access to justice?
    
    Protection from court fees
  - Conclusions on access to justice
- Success fee agreements
  - Damages-based agreements
    
    Existing law and practice
    
    Enforceability of damages-based agreements by solicitors
    
    Conflicts of interest
  - Power to cap success fees
    
    Evidence on the power to cap success fees
    
    Possibility of multiple success fees
  - Success fee agreements in personal injury claims
    
    Damages for future loss
    
    Evidence on damages for future loss
    
    Arguments in support of ring-fencing damages for future loss
    
    Arguments against ring-fencing damages for future loss
    
    Practical issues with the Bill's approach to future loss
    
    Periodical payments
    
    Involvement of an actuary
    
    Conclusions on damages for future loss
    
    Other provisions on success fee agreements
    
    Expenses in the event of success
    
    Exclusion for family proceedings
    
    Power to make further provision
- Expenses in civil litigation
  - Overview of Part 2 of the Bill and the evidence received
  - Qualified one way costs shifting (QOCS)
    
    The provisions in the Bill
    
    The justification for introducing QOCS
    
    Evidence on the introduction of QOCS
    
    Arguments in support of introducing QOCS
    
    Arguments against introducing QOCS
    
    Response to the concerns about introducing QOCS
    
    Conclusions on the introduction of QOCS
    
    Uninsured defenders
    
    Tests to lose QOCS protection
    
    The test in section 8(4)(a)
    
    The test in section 8(4)(b)
    
    Tenders
    
    Summary dismissal
    
    Scottish Government response to the evidence on the tests to lose QOCS protection
    
    Conclusions on the tests to lose QOCS protection
  - Third party funding
    
    Who would be caught by the definition of a funder?
- Regulation of claims management companies
  - Developments during the course of the Committee's scrutiny of the Bill
    
    Financial Guidance and Claims Bill
  - The timing of regulation
  - Referral fees and cold calling
  - Conclusions on the regulation of claims management companies
- Auditors of court
  - Scottish Civil Courts Review
  - Proposals in the Bill for auditors of court
  - Evidence on auditors of court
- Group proceedings
  - What are group proceedings?
  - Background to the Bill's provisions on group proceedings
  - The Bill's provisions on group proceedings
    
    Scottish Government's policy justification for the approach taken
  - Evidence on group proceedings
    
    Views on the overall approach taken in the Bill
    
    Views on opt-in versus opt-out proceedings
    
    Funding of group proceedings
  - Conclusions on group proceedings
- Financial Memorandum
  - Evidence on the Financial Memorandum
  - Scottish Government response
- General principles of the Bill
- Annex A - Extracts from the minutes
- Annex B - Written evidence
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Scottish Civil Courts Review, recommendation 189. (n.d.) Retrieved from https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-source/civil-courts-reform/report-of-the-scottish-civil-courts-review-vol-2-chapt-10---15.pdf?sfvrsn=4

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Faculty of Advocates. (2017, August). Written submission, paragraph 12. Retrieved from http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S5_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/CL-FacultyofAdvocates.pdf

Association of British Insurers. (2017, August). Written submission, paragraph 26. Retrieved from http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S5_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/CL-ABI.pdf

Association of British Insurers. (2017, August). Written submission, paragraph 31. Retrieved from http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S5_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/CL-ABI.pdf

Forum of Insurance Lawyers. (2017, August). Written submission, paragraph 43. Retrieved from http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S5_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/CL-FOIL.pdf

Justice Committee. (2017, September 5). Official Report 5 September 2017, col. 16. Retrieved from http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11057&mode=pdf

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Policy Memorandum, paragraph 51.. (2017, June). Retrieved from http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Civil%20Litigation%20(Expenses%20and%20Group%20Proceedings)%20(Scotland)%20Bill/SPBill14PMS052017.pdf

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. (2017, August). Written submission, paragraph 19. Retrieved from http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S5_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/CL-APIL.pdf

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. (2017, August). Written submission, paragraph 24. Retrieved from http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S5_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/CL-APIL.pdf

Motor Accident Solicitors Society. (2017, August). Written submission, paragraph 19. Retrieved from http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S5_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/CL-MASS.pdf

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