Standing further back, can we make the contingent fee system more transparent and accordingly more competitive with the intent that
a fair contingent fee agreement may be more reliably seen to generate a reasonable contingent fee?
Not exact matches
The second way is by considering, after the work is done, whether the
contingent fee agreement and the
contingent fee are
fair and reasonable.
The recent case of Evans Sweeny Bordin LLP v. Zawadzki, 2015 ONCA 756 considered judicial supervision of
contingent fees and started with the proposition that «A contingency
fee agreement is enforceable only if it is both
fair and reasonable».