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Welcome to Law Link (ATE) Ltd. Law Link (ATE) Ltd offer a complete choice of After the Event, ATE insurance both on a deferred and upfront basis. We also provide funding solutions to solicitors. We can also place ATE for the more complex Personal Injury and Commercial case on a bespoke basis.

If you would like to join our panel or you would like to discuss any aspect of Law Link and its products in more detail, please just complete our enquiry form on this page or complete the email helpline at the right side of this page and we will contact you.

Law Link offer a range of fully deferred premiums on their policies, which means the premium does not have to be paid until the case is concluded. Law Link can insure Personal Injury cases including Road Traffic Accident (RTA), Employer Liability accidents (EL), Public Liability accidents (PL), Occupiers Liability accidents (OL), medical/clinical negligence, Industrial disease, Commercial disputes and Financial Cases also know as Financial Irregularity cases. The Financial Irregularity deferred ATE insurance policy covers both Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) cases as well as loan agreements that are unenforceable under the Consumer Credit Act.  You can also download our bespoke ATE Insurance proposal form and our Commercial ATE Insurance proposal form.

At Law Link, we make it our priority to understand the problems solicitors might be facing and to offer funding solutions which meet their needs.We are able to offer a range of schemes which help with paying for cases funding, disbursement funding and funding work in progress and other types of litigation funding. Our current choice of funding options include Practice funding, Term Loans, Factoring Referral Fees for CMC's, Commercial Litigation Funding, Profit costs Funding, To download our current funding options please click here.

Although we do not generate personal injury or financial irregularity cases ourselves, at Law Link we appreciate the difficulties solicitors have in establishing good relationships with reliable Claims Management Company’s who produce good volumes of quality cases. Because of our experience in the market, we have built up a unique network of contacts with both solicitors and CMC’s, with the result that we are often approached by solicitors seeking work and by CMC’s looking to place cases.

This section provides details of case law regarding ATE premium recoverability and various other relevant changes to legislation including Changes to CPR 44.3, now amended to include CPR 44.3B and 44.12B. Changes to the Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Direction update 6th April 2009. Burgess v J Breheny Contracts Limited [2009] EWHC 90131, Dix v Townend & Anor [2008] EWHC 90117 (Costs), Avril v Boultby (2008) (Nottingham CC), Able UK Ltd v Reliance Security Services Ltd [2006]EWHC 90058 (Costs), Hutchings v The British Transport Police Authority [2006] EWHC 90064 (Costs) (11 October 2006), Rodgers v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2006] EWCA Civ 1134, Tilby v Perfect Pizza [2002] EWHC 9003 (Costs) and Sarwar v Alam [2001] EWCA Civ 1401

This section provides details of case law regarding PPI and unenforceable loan agreement matters and including Southern Pacific Personal Loans Ltd v Walker & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 1176 (12 November 2009), Blemain Finnance v Bentley Cardiff County Court - Oct 2009, McGuffick v The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC [2009] EWHC 2386 (Comm) (06 October 2009), MBNA –v- Thorius (in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne County Court, September 2009), Heath v Southern Pacific Mortgage Ltd [2009] EWHC 103 (Ch) (29 January 2009) and Other useful reading including the cases of London North Securities Ltd v Mr & Mrs Meadows (Court of Appeal [2005] EWCA Civ 956, Wilson and others v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (at Court of Appeal, known as Wilson v First County Trust) House of Lords 10 July 2003, McGinn v Grangewood Securities Ltd Court of Appeal 23 April 2002 3 All ER 145; 105 Solicitors' Journal 588, and Watchtower Investments Ltd v Payne & Anor [2001] EWCA Civ 1159 (20 July 2001)

The Document Library includes a specimen ATE personal injury policy (PI), a Specimen Key Facts document to go along side the personal injury After the event policy, the Claim under the policy Procedure document, a Policy Request form and a claims handling procedural Manual.

This section contains industry news including MASS' reply to Lord Justice Jackson's review of the civil litigation costs and Changes to CPR affecting costs & the recovery of ATE Insurance premiums.

This section provides useful links on Legal Information & Compliance, including, Civil Procedure Rules, Transcripts of Supreme Court Costs Office Decisions dated 2007 and earlier, Transcripts of Supreme Court Costs Office Decisions as at 28 July 2009, Solicitors' Regulation Authority Code of Conduct 2007. It provides links to organisations including, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), The Law Society, The Motor Accident Solicitors' Society (MASS), Ministry of Justice (Claims Management Regulation), Financial Services Authority (FSA). We also have links to various publications including Claims Management Magazine, Insurance Times, Law Society Gazette, Post Magazine, The Lawyer, Legal and Medical Magazine and Litigation Funding. We provide details and a link to the supplier of our case management system, eMeritus Case management software and a medical reporting company, Doctors' Chambers.

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