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Cash Accounts - the least understood part of the assessment process under the Solicitors Act 1974

Cash Accounts - A Dark Art?

The purpose of the Cash Account exercise, at the conclusion of a Solicitors Act assessment, is to determine who owes what, and to whom. A Cash Account...

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How to Check your Solicitor's Record

You can check your solicitor's record by using the search function on the site of the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Just insert either the surname ...

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Did your Conditional Fee Agreement contain a 100% success fee?

If so you might be entitled to a refund. "The Court of Appeal will have the desire to protect the client rather than the 100% success fee." Erica Bedf...

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Law firms overcharging PPI clients, says the Solicitors Regulation Authority

A warning notice by the Solicitors Regulation Authority last August which stated that charging more than 15% could be considered unreasonable, unless ...

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Have you been charged for "Unusual" Items by your solicitor?

.....in order to come within 46.9(3)(c), it seems to me that the defendant must specifically point to the unusual aspect and give specific advice upon...

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