The Australian's legal affairs editor, Chris Merritt, speaks with Chris Bogart about the evolution of corporate litigation funding, it's standing in the Australian market and the industry's maturing view of the practice. In response to Merritt's question about the global outlook for Burford, Chris explains, "There's no question that the trend around applying capital to the legal industry and applying capital to legal assets has been very much on the upswing in the last decade, and Burford has really pioneered many of those things."