Just as many solicitors will proceed from qualification to retirement, without a single solicitor-own client assessment…
Category: Solicitor-own client
Time to let rip
The ripples from the decisions of the Court of Appeal in Belsner v Cam Legal Services [2022]…
Belsner v Cam Legal Services [2022] EWCA Civ 1387 and Karatysz v SGI Legal LLP [2022] EWCA Civ 1388 considered
This morning the Court of Appeal handed down judgments in two cases which are of considerable…
Judgment Day
This morning the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in two cases of great significance for…
The end of the line?
At 10.30am tomorrow the Court of Appeal will hand down judgment remotely in the cases of…
When a CFA is not a CBA
One of the more esoteric varietals of retainer that a solicitor may make with a client…
Assecuratus non quaerit lucrum sed agit ne in damno sit
The Platinum Jubilee is over. Amidst the caterwauling and sentimentality, with the press obsessing over the…
A falsis principiis proficisci
Last week saw the shock adjournment of the appeal in the case of Belsner v Cam…
Costs and deductions from damages II
“It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical…
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
Since 2013, the number of solicitor-own client detailed assessments has significantly increased. In particular challenges to…