The WLR Daily case summaries
[2025] WLR(D) 336
King’s Bench Division
Turner v Coupland Cavendish Ltd
[2025] EWHC 1605 (KB)
2024 Oct 23; 2025 June 26
Sweeting J
Costs— Detailed assessment— Further information— Claimant engaging solicitors on personal injury claim and entering into damages-based agreement with another company for payment of success fee— Solicitors also arranging after the event insurance to protect claimant against legal costs if claim failing— Claim settled and compensation recovered— Claimant suspecting solicitors receiving secret commissions from company and after the event insurer— Claimant seeking detailed assessment of bill of costs— Whether claimant entitled to request information relevant to alleged undisclosed commissions—
Solicitors Act 1974 (c 47), s 70
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CPR r 18.1, Pt 67