The Royal & SunAlliance’s ‘after-the-event’ protection plan for conditional fee agreements ‘Pursuit’ has been designed to address two problems which arise from the wider use of CFAs.

One is the risk the solicitor has, when entering into a CFA, of not being paid at all if the case is lost. The other is the cost of insurance which the client requires under a CFA to cover his exposure to costs if the case is lost.