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MGN v United Kingdom

3rd February 2011

Are success fees legal? In MGN v UK the European Court of Human Rights held that a success fee in a privacy claim breached the Convention. Where does this leave success fees generally?

To find out more about this important new development, please click here to read the article by Benjamin Williams, Robert Marven and Peter Mant published in The Law Society Gazette

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