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   No-win, no-fee: Cherie Blair is using a deal normally provided for those who cannot afford to pursue litigation But Cherie Blair is using a no-win no-fee deal with her lawyers to sue a Sunday newspaper for libel, it has emerged. Conditional fee agreements, according to the Ministry of Justice website, are to provide "access to justice for those who could not afford to pursue litigation and who are not eligible for public funding." Graham Atkins Solicitor Yet, despite the substantial family fortune, Mrs Blair now joins the ranks of Naomi Campbell and Sharon Stone in taking advantage of the sometimes controversial CFA scheme. The no-win no-fee arrangement enables people to take legal action knowing they won't have to pay their lawyers' costs if they lose. Their lawyers risk working for nothing, but if they win their legal team can charge the losing side a "success fee" up to 100 per cent extra on top of their normal rates to compensate them for the risk of ...

  Cherie Blair has launched libel proceedings against the  News of the World  following an article that claimed she was engaged in a "secret feud" with Gordon Brown's wife, Sarah.   Blair is demanding an apology and damages over the piece, headlined "War of Silence: Cherie's Secret Feud with PM's Sarah", which appeared in the News International-owned paper on January 27 this year. The wife of former prime minister Tony Blair has instructed law firm Atkins to represent her. Her case is being dealt with by  Graham Atkins Solicitor , who founded the firm nearly two years ago. Atkins has previously represented the Blairs in a number of cases, including the winning of "substantial damages" from Associated  Newspapers  in November last year for infringement of privacy.   He told MediaGuardian.co.uk: "It is often necessary for Atkins to take action against newspapers in relation to untrue or invasive stories about our client  Cherie...

  News of the World article falsely accused Cherie Blair of having an 'inhuman' attitude in a discussion about victims of crime Cherie Blair has settled a libel action against the  News of the World  for an article that falsely accused her of having an "inhuman" attitude in a discussion about the victims of crime. An article penned by News of the World columnist Carole Malone, which appeared on 5 October last year, contained a string of criticisms of Blair after she appeared as a panellist at a meeting attended by victims of crime.  Graham Atkins Solicitor The News of the World settled the libel claim made by Blair, printing an apology in yesterday's edition of the tabloid and online accepting that Malone's claims were "unfounded", and paid unspecified damages and legal costs. Malone's column made a number of false claims, including that Blair had arrived with hordes of secuity men, only made the appearance at the event for publicity purposes and...

  Our programme, "The Price of Blood", broadcast on 8 October 2006, reported on an unsuccessful prosecution in Italy of Paolo and Guelfo Marcucci, the owners of the Marcucci group of companies which included, at the time, the biopharmaceutical company Sclavo SpA. Graham Atkins   Solicitor It was not our intention to allege in the programme that the Marcuccis had sold or distributed blood derivative products that were infected with HIV and Hepatitis C, or which were likely to be infected. Nor did we intend to suggest that as a result they had endangered lives. We accept that these allegations are untrue and regret any impression we gave to the contrary. We have apologised to the Marcuccis and agreed to pay damages and their legal costs.  Read more--->>>>>

  Heather Mills was facing damaging new allegations today over her claim that she had been abducted and molested by her former swimming coach. Ms Mills wrote a harrowing account of the kidnap in her best-selling autobiography A Single Step, devoting seven pages to the ordeal. She claimed that 30 years ago she and a next door neighbour Margaret Ambler had been held in the man's flat in Tyne and Wear for three days until being rescued by police. More here... •  Why Heather Mills pretended to be me •  I was tarred and Heathered too, says Heather's first husband But a lawyer acting for Ms Ambler told today how his client received thousands of pounds in damages in an out-of-court settlement this summer for "misuse of private information and invasion of privacy". Ms Mills paid tens of thousands more in legal costs for a case that dragged on for more than a year. Graham Atkins Solicitor told the Evening Standard the events as described in Ms Mills's autobiography publis...

  Two years after winning Big Brother in 2007, Essex lad Brian Belo came up with an idea for a fly-on-the-wall documentary. It would feature all his rich mates and detail their glamorous lives, lavish spending and love of excess. And to get it off the ground, he rounded up Sam Faiers, Mark Wright, Kirk Norcross and Amy Childs to shoot a trailer for the show – Totally Essex. Graham Atkins Solicitor In the epic video, semi-professional footballer turned night club promoter Mark was seen bragging about buying £5,000 rounds and his pulling prowess. He gloated: “We’re not an ugly bunch of boys either so we don’t even need to pull out that [money] as much, but the fact that we’ve got that, and we’re good looking, the girls just fly in. “Just all round our table, on our laps, I probably couldn’t tell you one week or one night of the year we go home empty handed.” A 21-year-old Kirk showed the cameras around his dad’s sprawling manor house estate and his own pad, boasting abo...