Conditional fee arrangements can be defined as fee arrangement, whereby payment to the solicitor is dependent upon the result of the proceedings, and is permitted by Section 58 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 and the Conditional Fee Agreements Order 1998. Conditional fee agreements are becoming increasingly popular, this is because if the claimant is unsuccessful he/she will not have to pay the Solicitor for his service, hence, no win, no fee. Therefore it is in the best interest of both parties for the Solicitor to win the case, and the claimant to be awarded the damages. When dealing with a civil case it is very difficult to know how much taking the case to court will cost. This is mainly because it is difficult to predict how serious the other party is and how far they are willing to go to defend the case. It is possible that once a court case has started the other party may admit liability, therefore the case does not need to proceed, and so can be settled quickly and comparatively cheaply. However if the case does proceed then the costs of running that case can rise considerably. Other than the cost of a lawyer, there is also the expense of obtaining evidence to support your case and the cost of an expert¹s report on it if necessary, and in addition court fees must also be paid. It is very easy for some civil cases; especially those dealt with in the High Court to cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to run. If the claimant is victorious then they are able to claim most of, if not all, of the costs back from the losing party. In addition to this the Access to Justice Act 1990 now gives the courts the power to make the losing party pay the success fee to the winning parties solicitor on the winning parties behalf. This is because it is believed that if the winning party had to pay their solicitor a success fee then they would have not received the full compensation.…