Champerty, maintenance and funding | Practical Law
This note considers the relevance of the rules against champerty and maintenance to the funding of modern litigation. It describes the common law rules on champerty and maintenance, and the statutory modifications to them, and then identifies the situations in which the rules against maintenance and champerty may still apply. It goes on to look at the implications for solicitors and barristers, as well as for different types of third party funders. Finally, it considers the regulation of third party funding.