RC Question 24 Explanation
DISCUSSION: Lines 35-40 discuss the problems of determining if a client could enter into an uplift agreement. Those lines mention that costs are hard to predict, because some depend on things that happen after the case has started, such as opposition strategies.
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- I was tempted by this, but lines 35-40 actually don’t mention trial length.
- So? If the client won’t reveal information, they can’t become a client. It’s easy to determine whether a client is eligible in that case: they aren’t eligible. Under the proposed reform, clients need to reveal financial information to the lawyer.
- CORRECT. See the discussion above.
- This reduces the number of cases in which lawyers can take uplift clients. But it doesn’t increase the difficulty of predicting when a client is qualified.
- This isn’t what the passage said. Lines 30-35 said that lawyers would have to investigate both the legal and financial issues (“not only”). So time isn’t taken away from legal issues – the lawyer just has more work to do.
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