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CMS has confirmed that it has dismissed one of its partners, which the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has now been alerted about.
Partner Joel Barry has been sacked, with CMS saying in a statement: “We can confirm that a partner has been asked to leave the firm and will not be commenting further.”
A former partner at legacy Olswang, Barry took over from Paul Stevens as head of IP before the three-way tie up with CMS and Nabarro. The role is currently occupied by Tom Scourfield.
An SRA spokesperson said: “Now that we are aware, we will look at all relevant information before deciding on any next steps.”
No win no fee solicitors need to be insured. If the judge decides against the cag then someone needs to pick up the costs for both sides. That comes from the solicitors indenity insurance not the solicitor. This is why only strong cases get to be fought on a no win basis. If your not. 60% plus of winning then forget it.
This case will be binned if its not insured.
Antha
The first stage will be no different from the rest of the case. We should not be paying for anything other than a case assessment to see if its a goer. I believe this has been done already and my thinking is this is what we are paying for. ie work already completed.
We should not on a nwnf be paying for anything else.
Whati would like to ask is
Has the full assessment been completed, is it a goer over 60%
Is the payment to cover this assessment?
If not why are we being asked to pay if we are nwnf.
Would Mr Cotter's indemnity insurance not be picking up all costs if he has decided to procede.
Very mixed feelings here. New poster is suspicious to me but may be genuine. Disappointed a fee has been requested contraray to what we thought. However I had to hawk my own employment case around the nwnf solicitors and they all refused to look into it unless i paid around 2 to 3k for assesment except for one. Only then would they give me a yes or no so nwnf does usually cost if its complex.
What i would like to know is will this be the only payment required.we cant get into a situation where we are paying at each stage.
We need to know that the case will be indemnfied and the insurer will be picking up the tab win or lose.
Cotter will need to be at 65% +chance here to take the risk.