Legal Disclaimer: In contentious business, and in accordance with section 149 of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, a legal practitioner shall not charge any amount in respect of legal costs expressed as a percentage or proportion of any damages (or other moneys) that may become payable to his or her client, or purport to set out the legal costs to be charged to a junior counsel as a specified percentage or proportion of the legal costs paid to a senior counsel. A legal practitioner shall not, without the prior written agreement of his or her client, deduct or appropriate any amount in respect of legal costs from the amount of any damages or moneys that become payable to the client in respect of legal services that the legal practitioner provided to the client.
Subject to Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 (Advertising) Regulations 2020, Regulation 6(c): a legal practitioner shall not refer to the quantum of a possible award of damages save insofar as by reference to the Personal Injuries Assessment Board Book of Quantum or other guidelines as may be published by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board or other statutory authority or statutory body.