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Do I get something for nothing ?
Not necessarily, if you are granted Public Funding and you win your case and receive money, then you may have to repay your legal costs.
This is known as the Statutory Charge, your legal costs could include your solicitors costs, barristers fees and any experts who wrote reports to help your case as well as court fees.
If you get an order from the court that your opponent has to pay your costs then you may not have to repay your own costs.
However, there may still be a small percentage of "Unrecovered" costs that you could owe to your solicitor.
If you lose your case you do not have to pay back your legal costs. However, the Legal Services Commission will not pay any costs or other money that you have to pay to your opponent because you lost the case, i.e. compensation or payment of your opponent's costs.
Usually you will not have to pay your opponent's costs if you are publicly funded. The court will make an order that your opponent can only get their costs from you if they can show you have the money to pay.
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