Acting on behalf of an anonymous group of clients, solicitors at Mishcon de Reya have been in contact with government lawyers to seek assurances over the process, and plan to pursue it through the courts if they are not satisfied.
There are businesses out there, such as Lawyers On Demand, Axiom and Vario, that match interesting clients with solicitors who want more control over their caseload.
Speaking outside Nottingham Crown Court after the collapse of his clients' trial, solicitor Mike Schwarz said police need to answer "serious questions" about Mr Kennedy's actions and efforts to charge the activists were a "serious attack on peaceful, accountable protest".
Val Prosser, a member of the elderly client team at solicitors Furley Page, says: "People risk being cheated by unscrupulous salesmen who offer to write their wills but are not adequately qualified, trained or insured, and may charge additional costs for extras".
Gareth Curtis, an associate in the private client team of solicitors DWF, welcomed the recommendations as an improvement on the current rules on intestacy, but said the two- and five-year cut off points would be galling for those who died just before conclusion of those time periods.
"We can report that we made this week an emergency application to the High Court in London to secure money held in the client account of solicitors, Collyer Bristow, who had acted for the purchaser of the Club in May 2011, said joint administrator Paul Clark.
Without legal aid, if these cases occurred today victims could try to find a solicitor prepared to take on the case with a conditional fee agreement, where the client and/or the solicitor share the risk of losing the cases.
This group had been taken on as no-win-no-fee clients by the solicitors representing some victims of Jimmy Savile.
Once firms have used up their annual quota, which many did halfway through this year, they are expected to refer clients to other solicitors.
'The adviser should have suggested that the client see a solicitor.' 2/10 6 'My flat was bought by a property company a few years ago.
