The Weekly Law Reports
[1972] 3 WLR 136
[FAMILY DIVISION]
MARSDEN
v.
MARSDEN
1972 March 20,
21
Watkins J.
Barrister
— Authority to bind client
— Compromise of action
— Wife's counsel agreeing to order and giving undertakings on her behalf
— Counsel acting contrary to express authority
— Limitation of authority unknown to husband's counsel
— Application to set aside order contemporaneous or before order perfected
— Court's discretion to set aside
Practice
— Order
— Setting aside
— Counsel consenting to order contrary to client's express authority
— Court's power to set aside perfected order