Boodia v Slade (trading as Richard Slade and Co Solicitors)

Subject Matter

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

[2023] EWHC 2963 (KB); [2024] 1 WLR 2084; [2023] WLR(D) 489, KBD