Two-stage CFA success fees

KU (a child, by her mother and litigation friend PU) v Liverpool City Council [2005] EWCA Civ 475; TLR 16 May (reported as ‘U v Liverpool City Council’)

The claimant was four years old at the time of her accident on 6 September 2001, and her mother saw her solicitor very soon afterwards. She told him that her daughter had cut her leg when she was coming home from school. She was walking across the grass verge which lay between a public car park and Boundary Lane South in the city of Liverpool. The accident happened when she stepped into a hole hidden in the grass. It was about 7 in square and 20 in deep.