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Old Nov 26, 2018 | 4:59 pm
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Originally Posted by richardwft


There’s always the firm that acted for Mr Huzar, they went up against the Birds and won, I don’t think Mr Huzar paid anything like £750 per hour.
They likely had thousands of similar cases on their books but chose Huzar as a representative one. They made their money from the 25% (or whatever amount it is) no win no fee fees on each of those claims that then succeed and the airlines paid out on. The they garnered more claims following the publicity thus more than covering the speculative investment in the case.
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