The Government’s proposed overhaul of ‘no win, no fee’ agreements is set to face further scrutiny following an appeal to the Prime Minister by the parents of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

The Dowler family has written to both Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to highlight the impediments to justice the proposed reforms could bring, including the claim that without a ‘no win no fee’ agreement, they would not have been able to bring their case against News International for phone-hacking.