Norwich Union loses appeal in Callery v Gray case.

The House of Lords has dismissed Norwich Union's appeal on both conditional fee agreement success an...

The House of Lords has dismissed Norwich Union's appeal on both
conditional fee agreement success and after-the-event insurance premiums
in the case of Callery v Gray. The decision was taken with a majority of
four to one.


The decision upholds the Court of Appeal's ruling that after-the-event
premiums are recoverable in principal. For a simple rear-end shunt, as in
this case, a 20% success fee has been deemed appropriate.


The House of Lords dismissed the appeal on the grounds it is not the
appropria