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Product Description: This unique and invaluable book is the first major comparative study of litigation costs and methods of funding litigation. It contains national chapters contributed by scholars in 19 jurisdictions: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the US, along with a further chapter on Latin American jurisdictions...read more

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