of Advanced Legal Studies Working Party Report on the Ethics ofConditional Agreements, and Avrom Sherr, Woolf Professor of Legal Education at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The second extract is from Richard Harrison, a partner at Laytons.

There is a lot riding on the success of conditional fee agreements (CFAs). They are a central plank in the Government's legal services policy and, for many in the profession, they offer the opportunity to reclaim practices damaged by the erosion and removal of legal aid. The Law Society has endorsed a CFA referral scheme backed by insurance and there are numerous insurance companies selling CFA related policies. More fundamentally, CFAs currently represent the best hope for the general public of gaining access to justice. Little surprise then that a report, produced by a working group of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies (SALS). The Ethics of Conditional Fee Arrangements, should provoke a strong reaction from CFA lawyers (see 'Conditional Fee Agreements', NLJ February 9, 2001, pp 156-159.