Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill — Exception in Industrial Disease Cases From Ban on Costs Awards Covering No Win No Fee Success Fees and Insurance Premiums — 17 Apr 2012 at 22:00

Stewart Jackson MP, Peterborough voted not to allow "no win no fee" success fees and related legal insurance premiums to be included in costs awarded in cases relating to damages for health impacts due to a breach of an employer's duty to their employee.

The majority of MPs voted not to allow "no win no fee" success fees and related legal insurance premiums to be included in costs awarded in cases relating to damages for health impacts due to a breach of an employer's duty to their employee. The Bill included provisions to generally stop the award of costs to cover such success fees and insurance premiums.

MPs were considering the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill[1]. The motion passed in this vote was:

  • That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 32

Amendment 32 stated[2]:

  • Insert the following new Clause—
  • “Exception for industrial disease cases
  • The changes made by sections 43, 45 and 46 of this Act do not apply in relation to proceedings which include a claim for damages for a disease, condition or illness (whether or not resulting in death) resulting from any breach of duty owed by an employer to an employee.”

The changes made by sections 43, 45 and 46 relate to:

  • Stopping the losing party in cases being required to pay "success fees" to lawyers engaged under "no win no fee" arrangements. (Fees can be recovered from clients in a manner to be regulated).
  • Regulation of "no-win no fee" agreements requiring the success fee to be capped at a proportion of certain damages awarded to a client.
  • Preventing the inclusion of insurance premiums for legal insurance in allocations of costs; even when those are paid by trade unions or other membership bodies.

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Party Summary

Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.

What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.

What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con257 (+1 tell) 1084.6%
DUP0 80100.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 10100.0%
Lab0 232 (+2 tell)091.1%
LDem40 (+1 tell) 2075.4%
PC0 30100.0%
Respect0 10100.0%
SDLP0 2066.7%
Total:297 252086.7%

Rebel Voters - sorted by party

MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

NameConstituencyPartyVote
David NuttallBury NorthCon (front bench)no
Mike HancockPortsmouth Southwhilst LDem (front bench)no
John LeechManchester, WithingtonLDem (front bench)no

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