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Champerty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (611 words) |
 | Champerty is the practice of a third party participating in a lawsuit in order to share in the proceeds. |
| Champerty allows indigent plaintiffs access to expensive and expansive legal services they might not otherwise be able to afford. |
| The current state of the law of champerty is in flux. |
| Lawlink NSW: 2. Barratry, Maintenance and Champerty (7949 words) |
| Champerty was especially feared, because the champertor’s financial stake in the court action provided a strong temptation to suborn justices and witnesses, and to pursue worthless claims which a defendant may have lacked resources to withstand. |
| In some states these companies fell foul of champerty laws leading them to adopt a new strategy of acquiring the rights to patents and suing in their own names, rather than trying to acquire a right of action or be regarded as sharing in the proceeds of litigation. |
| Some courts have recognised the many exceptions to the principles of maintenance and champerty and have declined to invalidate agreements on those grounds unless the maintainers or champertors are clearly officious meddlers and are interfering in lawsuits for the purpose of stirring up strife and continuing unwarranted litigation. |
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