2.—(1) Section 58A(6) and (7) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990(1) shall not apply, as regards a party to proceedings, to:
(a)any proceedings in relation to which that party entered into a conditional fee agreement before 1st April 2000; or
(b)any proceedings arising out of the same cause of action as any proceedings to which sub-paragraph (a) refers.
(2) The coming into force of section 27 (Conditional fee agreements) shall not affect the validity of any conditional fee agreement entered into before 1st April 2000, and any such agreement shall continue to have effect after that date as if section 27 had not come into force.
(3) In paragraphs 1(a) and (2) “conditional fee agreement” has the same meaning as in section 58 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 as that section stands immediately before the coming into force of section 27 of the Access to Justice Act 1999.
1990 c. 41; section 58A is inserted by section 27 of the Access to Justice Act 1999, which comes into force on 1st April 2000, and also replaces section 58.