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Changes over time for: Section 14
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Point in time view as at 01/02/1991.
Changes to legislation:
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Criminal Law Act 1967, Section 14.
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14 Civil rights in respect of maintenance and champerty.U.K.
(1)No person shall, under the law of England and Wales, be liable in tort for any conduct on account of its being maintenance or champerty as known to the common law, except in the case of a cause of action accruing before this section has effect.
(2)The abolition of criminal and civil liability under the law of England and Wales for maintenance and champerty shall not affect any rule of that law as to the cases in which a contract is to be treated as contrary to public policy or otherwise illegal.
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