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If the sole reason was to profit via a CFA then screw them. From a claimant perspective IM and the S&G bunch are both so sharp I'm surprised they haven't cut themselves.

If it was to secure funding so the claim could continue then fine but make sure it is watertight. Speaking personally I had a £50k BTE case that ended up with budgeted costs of £200k for claimant alone, so sometimes you do need to switch.

Aside from that, the naysayers can bleat but when clinical negligence claims succeed at a ratio of 1 in 10 the failing 9 need to be paid for somehow and there would be no better way to destroy access to justice in these cases than to tell every potential client it may cost them £3k to fail.

CFAs weren't great for winning cases (costs aside) but they were sure good at funding the investigation on those cases that ended up settling. Kinda paid so the NHSLA didn't have to investigate poor cases...