an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded
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champerty::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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|---|---|
| Type of | actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct |
soliciting personal injury cases may constitute champerty.
Examples of champerty
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Champerty and maintenance carries a sentence of up to seven years in Hong Kong.
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In 2008, 21 people were arrested for champerty, maintenance and conspiracy.
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In this sense, it was not much different from champerty and maintenance.
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Maintenance and champerty are torts, not crimes, under New Zealand law.
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Champerty and maintenance are doctrines in common lawjurisdictions, that aim to preclude frivolous litigation.
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Champerty is an aggravated form of maintenance.
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The distinguishing feature of champerty is the support of litigation by a stranger in return for a share of the proceeds.
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At common law, maintenance and champerty were both crimes and torts, as was barratry, the bringing of vexatious litigation.
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- An unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded; "soliciting personal injury cases may constitute champerty"
- In common law jurisdictions, maintenance is the intermeddling of an uninterested party to encourage a lawsuit. It is "A taking in hand, a bearing up or upholding of quarrels or sides, to the disturbance of the common right."
- When a person agrees to finance someone else's lawsuit in exchange for a portion of the judicial award.
- An outsider assisting a litigant in return for a portion of the proceeds
- An agreement made illegally where a person agrees to pay someone elses legal fees in return for a share of the proceeds.
