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Stephen North v Neil Davies and Partners Solicitors

The solicitors bills were well in excess of the range of fees estimated at the outset

Another great result for a client that had concerns over his legal fees but didn't know where to turn. This is just another example of why former clie...

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Your Local Solicitor Isn't so Local These Days

Increasingly clients are using distant solicitors, using an online sign up process

In days gone by members of the public would visit their local, usually family solicitor, for all their legal requirements. That has been changing and ...

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Were you charged an ATE Premium?

What is an ATE policy and did really need it?

An ATE policy is a policy of insurance taken out to cover the risk of losing your case and having to pay the opponent's costs. The ATE premium is the ...

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Check your solicitor's billing arrangements

Solicitors may not be entitled to sue or take any other legal action on unpaid invoices by virtue of S69(1) Solicitors Act 1974 if the contract does n...

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Probate solicitor struck off after charging eight times the reasonable amount

The Judge said there were “no documents on the appellant’s file to evidence any work done for the estate after January 2016, yet 36 invoices were raised in the period after January 2016”

Legal Futures reports today on the case of a solicitor's appeal against striking off after charging an estate where he was sole executor over eight ti...

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