Al R
fearless advocates with a sense of outraged who recognise that Goliath needs the occasional kick in the nuts
Your gratitude is understandable but your belief that lawyers like that are motivated by a sense of outrage is naive. Lawyers are in business to make money just like everyone else.
I knew I'd read that firm's name somewhere and a bit of googling found this.
Motto & others v Trafigura Limited 2011
A Trafigura ship discharged toxic materials off the Ivory Coast. Leigh Day & Co paid local agents a 3% commission to find claimants. They recruited 29,614 claimants.
Despite allegations of dire injury and damage it turned out that the victims had mild flu-like symptoms.
Trafigura agreed to pay £30m damages plus costs to settle the case.
Leigh Day & Co put in a bill for £104.8 million costs!
Trafigura contested the bill and it was eventually reduced by more than 40% so Leigh Day had to make do with only about £62 million.
http://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/nlj/c.../figure-it-out
I blame New Labour
You should mention that to Mr Day.
His website says he's an Executive Committee Member of the Society of Labour Lawyers as well as a Director of Greenpeace.
lurid campaigns Leigh Day & Co success allows him to subsidise
Lawyers don't subsidise.
They invest in what they assess as sure winners on a no-win/no-fee basis and reap the profits when the case ends.