By Maria Ward-Brennan After a huge push from the third-party funding industry to introduce a new law on litigation funding, the Prime Minister’s decision to call a snap election has put the process in limbo – so what does this mean? Litigation funding, when a third party provides financial funding for a legal case, has been in the headlines for the past year ever since the Supreme Court handed down a ruling in the so-called PACCAR case. This class action involved several truck haulier companies in England that were sued for allegedly breaching competition law. PACCAR was one of those sued, and…
