How funding a dispute works.

Your client space brings together your uploaded documents, the stages of the proceedings, documents shared by the firm and your exchanges with the team. It also contains frequently asked questions about following your case. Your sign‑in link is personal.

Yes, for general questions about following your case and using your space: its replies are labelled “automatic reply”. For a reply from a person, choose who your message goes to: Hello Justice for funding and the platform, an ACTIVE AVOCATS lawyer for a legal question. The assistant does not replace your lawyer.

For a Swiss franc loan, checking your case is free and this analysis fee does not apply: the programme has its own terms. For another dispute, the eligibility test and submitting your case are free. If you request funding, the analysis of the case costs €1,500 excl. VAT, that is €1,800 incl. VAT. You receive a written report and a funding opinion, favourable or unfavourable. This fee pays for the analysis work and is due whatever the opinion.

You repay nothing to Hello Justice. The fees paid to your lawyer are not claimed back from you, and the commission is only due in the event of success. The analysis fee, due whatever the opinion, is not refunded. The agreement, which you read before signing, sets out what remains payable by you.

Our commission is 14% incl. VAT for a Swiss franc loan. For any other dispute, it is 30%, including VAT for an individual and excluding VAT for a business. The rate is set before any commitment and does not change during the proceedings. It only applies in the event of success.

Yes. The Versailles Court of Appeal recognised its validity on 1 June 2006 (Foris AG v Veolia Propreté). Article 16 of the Act of 30 April 2025 is the first French statute to refer expressly to third‑party funding, for group actions, and decree no. 2025-1191 of 10 December 2025 sets out the related disclosure rules. The National Bar Council in 2015, then the Paris Bar in 2017, accepted the practice.

Usually two to four years, sometimes longer, appeals included. A settlement can come earlier.

Asserting your rights in court costs from €30,000 to more than €300,000 in fees and costs, over two to four years of proceedings, sometimes longer. Funding only makes sense if the sums at stake clearly exceed that cost. Below that level, the eligibility test points you to other routes, such as legal expenses insurance or legal aid.

Yes. Your submission is confidential and nothing is disclosed to the other side. Hello Justice only reads the documents the analysis needs.

No. Hello Justice funds proceedings, without giving legal advice or representing anyone in court. Your lawyer conducts the case.