Lord Malcolm has rejected our application for a protected expenses order again.
A few people asking what a protected expenses order is so allow me to explain.
A few people asking what a protected expenses order is so allow me to explain.
We launched the people's action crowdfunder to raise funds to pay our lawyers. A protected expenses order limits liability for fees to the other side. In otherwords, if we win, the Governments would only be liable for a percentage of the fees.
This is good because it limits the fees that the taxpayer would have to fork out to us in a win. In other words, good fiduciary responsibility. At the same time. If we were to lose, it would limit my personal liability (because I am the named pursuer) for fees to the UK Gov.
Put simply, both sides would be responsible for their own fees and a limitation on liability to the other side.
A protected expenses order is the only reason that cases like the Wightman and Cherry cases were able to proceed. Because liability was capped.
As things stand with this case. The money in the crowdfunded pays the fees of our lawyers. However without a protected expenses order, if we win, the way CrowdJustice works, any fees we would recover from the other side would goto the access to justice charity.
Which is one of the reasons we chose CrowdJustice. HOWEVER, if we lose. I now face being bankrupted by the Government because I am personally liable to all costs to the other side.
So yeah! That's it in a nutshell.
So yeah! That's it in a nutshell.
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