Lawyers have been branded “ambulance chasers” for urging luxury flat owners to sue over Grenfell-style cladding despite warnings that they could face legal bills of £30,000.
Legal costs experts say that even if the residents won a claim against the building’s developers, most of the compensation could go to their legal teams. “The cladding scandal is a bean feast for their lawyers,” a specialist told The Times.
The London law firm Leigh Day claims to have 58 people signed up for legal action over cladding at the New Capital Quay development in Greenwich, southeast London. The firm is said to have sent letters and emails to other leaseholders urging them to join the action.
The rapid spread of the Grenfell fire in 2017 was