The Weekly Law Reports
[2024] 1 WLR 2084
King’s Bench Division
*Boodia and another v Slade (trading as Richard Slade and Co Solicitors)
[2023] EWHC 2963 (KB)
2023 July 4; Nov 21
Freedman J
Solicitor— Costs— Assessment— Solicitors issuing interim bills to clients pursuant to express terms of retainer— Whether solicitors required to obtain clients’ informed consent before issuing interim bills— Whether retainer containing implied term requiring solicitors to explain costs and rights in dispute to clients—
Solicitors Act 1974 (c 47), s 70