What is the test for a contingency fee?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Leacock v. Whalen, Beliveau & Associes Inc., 1997 CanLII 2375 (BC SC):
The plaintiff relies on Just v. British Columbia (supra) and submits that the contingency fee arrangement becomes irrelevant when we determine that the plaintiff will not receive, by way of increased costs, a sum in excess of the contingency fee.
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