Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (Resumed)
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
One issue with the LSRA is the no win, no fee matter, which is common. I googled that this morning and approximately 20 solicitors' firms have used that particular phrase. We clearly have an industry that is trying to incentivise claims and it is promoting that issue. Has the LSRA investigated that? A simple googling of the term would be enough to examine it. There is an incentive between the service provider who is the legal professional and the client to drive a claim forward to a significant degree beyond the intermediary bodies that have been mentioned. What is the witnesses' legal assessment of that? Does it match proper professional practice? Are they investigating that?
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