The economics of justice

Justice has a price, and most people are asked to pay it alone

A legal claim is, at heart, a financial position. Someone is owed money or is entitled to a remedy, and the question is whether it can be recovered. Yet the person holding that claim is usually asked to fund the pursuit of it from their own pocket, for years, with no certainty of the result. The cost of pursuing justice is real, it is often hidden, and it decides who gets to seek justice at all.

We built Fund My Case to change that arithmetic. We are a litigation finance platform. We are not a law firm, and we do not give legal advice. What we do is provide the capital to pursue a claim, so that the strength of a case, and not the size of a bank balance, decides whether it is fought.

We treat a legal claim the way finance treats any asset

Every claim can be reasoned about. Not perfectly, and never with false precision, but honestly. What is the amount receivable? How likely is a favourable outcome? If the outcome is favourable, how much of it can realistically be recovered from the other side? How long will it take, and what is that delay worth today?

Put simply, the value of a claim is the amount at stake, weighted by the probability of winning, weighted again by the probability of actually realising the money, and then discounted for the time and risk involved. This is the same discipline that prices any uncertain asset. Applied to a dispute, it turns an anxious, all-or-nothing gamble into something that can be assessed, priced, and shared.

This is where finance, economics, law, and behavioural science genuinely meet. A case is not only a set of legal arguments. It is human beings and organisations behaving in ways that can be studied, and outcomes that can be estimated with care.

Skin in the game, on both sides

We fund the large majority of the litigation cost, and the client deposits a share of the cost upfront. That structure is deliberate. It aligns our interests with the client's, because we only do well when the recovery does well. It filters out claims that no one truly believes in, because a client who is unwilling to commit anything is telling us something. And it de-risks both sides, because neither party is carrying the whole burden alone.

Our capital is non-recourse. It is repaid only out of a successful recovery. Funding is never guaranteed, and every matter goes through assessment before we commit. We assess first on the strength of the amount receivable, and then on the merits, the documents, and how recoverable the money realistically is.

The dividend is human

We are not neutral about why this matters. When money that is genuinely owed is recovered, a business keeps its people employed, a family gets back what was taken, a person who had given up is made whole. Financing the recovery of money is, in the end, financing the recovery of livelihoods. We measure our work by the disputes that would never have been pursued without us, and we try to talk about that plainly, without overstating it.

What we ask you to take away

Pursuing a legal claim is an economic decision, and it deserves to be treated as one. Understanding the true cost of a dispute, and how that cost and risk can be shared, is the first step to deciding whether pursuing your claim makes sense. That understanding is the point of everything we publish. The funding follows the understanding, not the other way around.