Conscious of high-profile cases involving legal fees, the LSB has issued some common questions they receive regarding requests for costs information. They have also published some illustrative case studies, setting out the types of issues involved in these cases, and how they would be likely to approach them if they were referred to the LSB. …
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The SC has overturned a CA decision relating to a case involving assessment of solicitors’ costs. The case summary states: ‘Background to the Appeal This appeal concerns the circumstances in which a solicitor’s client may apply to the court for assessment of their solicitor’s bill of costs. The court has the power to assess the …
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Practitioners should always be alive to the possibility of conflicts of interest arising. The SRA has recently fined a solicitor for such a breach. The solicitor acted for two clients where one of them relinquished the beneficial ownership of their property to the other. There was a conflict of their interests and no substantially common …
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