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Financing Of Litigation By Third-Party Investors: A Share Of Justice?, Poonam Puri
Financing Of Litigation By Third-Party Investors: A Share Of Justice?, Poonam Puri
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article addresses the issue of the funding of civil litigation within the framework of access to justice and the normative goal of increasing access to the civil justice system. The author critically analyzes and cautiously advances the case for the recent development of the financing of litigation by third-party investors. The argument is that investor financing has the potential to increase access to the civil justice system by ameliorating the economic barriers to litigation. The author evaluates investor financing against existing public and private models of financing litigation such as legal aid plans, litigation subsidy funds, and contingent fee …