Poor little insurgents - they got shouted at - boohoo!

[Esseesse]

Something that I have wondered about for some time, perhaps someone has the answer...

What are the changes that have occurred to enable these enormous legal investigations of questionable value? Perhaps I'm wrong (only born in the 80's), but it seems that decades ago this simply didn't happen. I think I've heard that during Mrs T's time, things were opened up which gave rise to the no-win-no-fee stuff we now see everywhere, is it related to that? Or at some point did we decide to allow unlimited funding by the state of such investigations?

[Mr GrimNasty]

"Although the idea of this highly spurious practice [conditional fee agreements] had been in the making for nearly 200 years, the no win no fee system was introduced in 1990 by the Courts and Legal Services Act. It wasn’t until 1995 that the no win no fee scheme was first implemented in courts in England and Wales. Three years later, in 1998, it was extended to feature in all civil cases in the UK."