No win No Fee offer by Jackson Yamba

ChirpyChicken

I post this with no bias one way or the other
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jacksonyamba_new-legal-protection-for-drivers-challenge-activity-7291518459752923136-NdbB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

ChirpyChicken

Information here:

Brie

I don't get it.  

If they win your case and you don't owe anything you don't need to pay them.

If they lose your case and you have to pay the scammers you also have to pay this "legal" team.  So my question has got to be - who are they actually working for?  They have no incentive to do a decent job (which you could do yourself) because if they do do a decent job they can't make any money.  

Call me cynical but I wonder if they are being paid by the bad guys to get cases to lose.  Or something.

ChirpyChicken

No because strike outs and summary judgments are not done "on track" they are not limited by costs on the small claims track. 
So they can claim full legal costs for these applications and they have done in the past. It makes sense 
So if you win I assume they get the costs and it costs you nothing. If you lose you only pay cost of your claim
(That is a simplistic and matchbox thinking )

Gr1pr

Brie said:

I don't get it.  

If they win your case and you don't owe anything you don't need to pay them.

If they lose your case and you have to pay the scammers you also have to pay this "legal" team.  So my question has got to be - who are they actually working for?  They have no incentive to do a decent job (which you could do yourself) because if they do do a decent job they can't make any money.  

Call me cynical but I wonder if they are being paid by the bad guys to get cases to lose.  Or something.

I am not sure where the skepticism comes from 

No win no fee means that the Defendant would not be paying the legal team, just paying the judgment,  if the Defendant plus legal team lost 

If the legal team win, they recoup the costs by asking for them in court,  so all costs as a full total within the judgment 

Going by past performance,  since JY left B W Legal and switched sides,  it's clear that he is not currently working for the parking companiesortheirgutterlawyes, the cases on contestor legal show what I have stated,  where parking companies have lost hundreds or thousands of pounds,  some of the cases were appeals too

They are likely to be working for themselves,  or freelancing,  or a different legal company that don't take on roboclaims

Anyone who hasn't read the JY blogs should do so, especially the one last month and the one this month too, where CEL lost £1200 after pursuing a gym goer for 3 pcns at a gym

Coupon-mad

Looks reasonable to me, not that it's needed in a typical DCB Legal claim case.  They are so easy.

Useful for multi-PCN cases perhaps, depending upon the fee (per PCN?) for a win.

troublemaker22

@Brie invited us to call them cynical and I’d like to accept the invitation. Jackson Yamba is definitely one of the good guys. He used to work for the bad guys (BW Legal and the parking scammers) but now he does a brilliant job representing their victims. If he wins the case, he recovers his fees from the bad guys at no cost to his client and if he loses the case he works for free. 

ChirpyChicken

Coupon-mad said:

Looks reasonable to me, not that it's needed in a typical DCB Legal claim case.  They are so easy.

Useful for multi-PCN cases perhaps, depending upon the fee (per PCN?) for a win.

From my reading it applies only to strike out and summary judgements because they are not done "on track" so are not subject to the cost constraints this is how they make their money (which is fair enough) so its free to end user so to speak
It wouldn't apply for a multi ticket final hearing on the small claims track 

Brie

Thanks for the responses - I can see how this might work now.