§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what steps he will take to ensure that lawyers will not seek to recover from their clients more than the fixed costs in privately funded personal injury actions valued at less than £15,000. [19321]
§ Mr. HoonThe arrangements that clients make with their lawyers are essentially private contractual arrangements. I would wish to give effect to the proposal made by Lord Woolf, that the fixed recoverable costs should apply between the client and the solicitor unless there was a written business agreement to the contrary.