Giles v The Law Society: CA 20 Oct 1995
A notice of the Law Society’s suspicion of dishonesty founding an intervention in a solicitor’s practice, did not need to particularise the acts suspected. Sedley LJ said: ‘it is by common consent a...
View ArticleCalcraft v Guest: CA 1898
A trial had taken place in which the principal issue was the upper boundary of the plaintiff’s fishery. On appeal the defendant proposed to rely on new evidence discovered among the papers in another...
View ArticleKoch Shipping Inc v Richards Butler (a Firm): CA 22 Jul 2002
The claimants in an arbitration sought orders with regard to a solicitor who had moved to the opponent’s firm of solicitors, but who came with privileged knowledge of the claimant’s business dealings....
View ArticleSmith v Hurlock: 4 May 1837
No length of Time is a Bar to opening a Solicitor’s Bill for Taxation, provided there be a distinct Allegation and Proof of improper Charges amounting to Fraud. Citations: [1837] EngR 701, (1837) Donn...
View ArticleNdole Assets Ltd v Designer MandE Services UK Ltd: CA 21 Dec 2018
Is service of a claim form, a reserved legal activity for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007 Citations: [2018] EWCA Civ 2865 Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Legal Professions...
View ArticleCox v Bankside Members Agency Ltd and Others: CA 16 May 1995
Successful Lloyds names were entitled to enforce their claims in the normal time sequence. The transfer of the rights of the insured against the insurer under section 1(1) the 1930 Act takes place on...
View ArticleAlliance and Leicester Building Society and Others v Edgestop Ltd and Others...
A receiver’s remuneration may be set by the court on either the standard or indemnity basis. Citations: Times 24-May-1995 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Insolvency, Legal Professions Updated: 21...
View ArticleSampson v John Boddy Timber Ltd: CA 17 May 1995
A barrister should not liable for wasted costs when he pursues arguable point for his client. Unless a party makes plain its intention that a settlement offer is made on an open basis, it remains...
View ArticleWorldwide Corporation Limited v Marconi Communications Ltd (Formerly Gpt...
Counsel, giving assurances in open court on behalf of his client, bound that client. This applied even though counsel might have been negligent, and / or might, in turn, be immune from suit. Courts...
View ArticleWorby, Worby and Worby v Rosser: CA 28 May 1999
Three potential beneficiaries sought payment from a solicitor of the costs of resisting the grant of probate to a will, saying that he had owed them a duty of care to ensure that the testator did not...
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