Book contents
- Third Party Funding
- Third Party Funding
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I A Comparative Overview
- 2 A Historical Overview
- 3 Third Party Funding: A Comparative Legal and Factual Overview
- Part II An Economic Analysis
- Part III Contractual, Regulatory and Policy Considerations
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - A Historical Overview
from Part I - A Comparative Overview
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2019
- Third Party Funding
- Third Party Funding
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I A Comparative Overview
- 2 A Historical Overview
- 3 Third Party Funding: A Comparative Legal and Factual Overview
- Part II An Economic Analysis
- Part III Contractual, Regulatory and Policy Considerations
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter describes some early forms of litigation funding in both civil law and common law jurisdictions, from a factual and legal point of view. This analysis is helpful not only to provide some interesting indications about the phenomenology of some forms of TPF in the past but also to see how the legislators of the time have reacted to some abuses deriving from such practices. The description of this historical evolution is very important to explain why these practices have been prohibited and/or limited, and then how the relaxation and/or abolition of such prohibitions and/or limits has allowed the emergence of the recent TPF phenomenon.
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- Third Party FundingLaw, Economics and Policy, pp. 17 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019