The WLR Daily case summaries
[2017] WLR (D) 773
Chancery Division
Harcus Sinclair llp and another v Your Lawyers Ltd (Damon Parker, third party)
[2017] EWHC 2900 (Ch)
2017 Sept 27–29; Oct 2; Nov 15
Edwin Johnson QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge
Solicitor— Officer of court— Court's supervisory jurisdiction— Claimant solicitor trading as limited liability partnership— Claimant undertaking to defendant solicitor not to accept instructions from any other claimants in group action— Undertaking signed on claimant’s behalf by partner— Whether partner giving undertaking in his personal capacity— Whether undertaking capable of taking effect as solicitor’s undertaking— Whether subject to court’s supervisory jurisdiction—
Solicitors Act 1974 (c 47), s 50