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Entries Tagged as 'Costs agreements'
May 1st, 2017 · 5121No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F2017%2F05%2F01%2Fapplicant-brings-case-beyond-jurisdiction-respondent-doesnt-take-the-point-until-the-last-minute-no-one-gets-costs%2FApplicant+brings+case+beyond+jurisdiction%3B+respondent+doesn%27t+take+the+point+until+the+last+minute%3B+no+one+gets+costs2017-05-01+01%3A50%3A10stephenhttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F%3Fp%3D5121
Jasmin Solar Pty Ltd v Fitzpatrick Legal Pty Ltd [2017] VSC 220 is a little case, but it is instructive about a number of things: solicitor-client taxations can take an awfully long time; some businesses probably don’t understand that they are ‘commercial clients’ and so fail to negotiate rights in lieu of the rights to seek […]
Tags: Costs agreements · costs disclosure defaults · Legal Profession Uniform Law · Professional fees and disbursements · Taxations
April 21st, 2017 · 5117No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F2017%2F04%2F21%2Fwhat-can-barristers-charge-for%2FWhat+can+barristers+charge+for%3F2017-04-20+22%3A51%3A44stephenhttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F%3Fp%3D5117
I gave a presentation at the really well organised Junior Bar Conference this year. The Bar sought questions which the junior barristers who attended wanted answers to. One question, which I thought odd, but which I answered earnestly, was ‘What can a barrister charge for?’ This was my answer: The starting position is freedom of […]
Tags: Costs agreements · Costs Court · costs disclosure defaults · costs disputes · Legal Profession Uniform Law · No win no fee · Professional fees and disbursements · Wasted costs
Frontier Law Group Pty Ltd v Barkman [2016] NSWSC 1542 is an ex tempore decision of Justice Slattery in an urgent application to extend the operation of a caveat lodged by solicitors over their client’s property. The application failed in part because the solicitors did not prove, even to the prima facie level required in such […]
Tags: Costs agreements · costs disclosure defaults · Professional fees and disbursements · Solicitor client bills of costs · The suit for fees
July 14th, 2016 · 4927No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F2016%2F07%2F14%2Fa-little-case-about-a-barrister-suing-a-solicitor-for-fees%2FA+little+case+about+a+barrister+suing+a+solicitor+for+fees2016-07-14+00%3A02%3A00stephenhttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F%3Fp%3D4927
Barnet Jade has given us an admirably constructed decision of Assessor Olischlager, a no-doubt busy decision maker in the Small Claims Division of the Local Court in NSW. Dupree v Russo [2016] NSWLC 8 was a barrister’s suit for fees against a solicitor. Call me a dag, but it is always a pleasure to find diligent, […]
December 10th, 2015 · 4650No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F2015%2F12%2F10%2Fwhen-can-lawyers-contract-out-of-taxation-part-3%2FWhen+can+lawyers+contract+out+of+taxation+%28part+3%292015-12-10+04%3A05%3A37stephenhttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F%3Fp%3D4650
This is part 3 of a post about the circumstances in which lawyers can avoid having their fees taxed. Parts 1 and 2 are here and here. In GLS v Goodman Group Pty Ltd [2015] VSC 627, Macaulay J held that an accord and satisfaction which was found to have been made in relation to fees […]
Tags: Costs agreements · costs disclosure defaults · Professional fees and disbursements · Taxations · Uncategorized
December 9th, 2015 · 4628No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F2015%2F12%2F09%2Fwhen-can-lawyers-contract-out-of-taxation-part-2%2FWhen+can+lawyers+contract+out+of+taxation%3F+%28part+2%292015-12-08+13%3A47%3A51stephenhttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F%3Fp%3D4628
This is part 2 of a post about in what circumstances lawyers can avoid having their fees scrutinised by the Supreme Court by the process traditionally known as ‘taxation’, but more recently also described in statutes as ‘costs review’ and ‘costs assessment’. Part 1 is here. First, a disclosure: I argued Beba at first instance, for […]
Tags: Costs agreements · Legal Profession Act · Professional fees and disbursements · Taxations · Uncategorized
December 6th, 2015 · 4632No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F2015%2F12%2F06%2Fwhen-can-lawyers-contract-out-of-taxation-part-1%2FWhen+can+lawyers+contract+out+of+taxation%3F+%28part+1%292015-12-06+11%3A40%3A38stephenhttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F%3Fp%3D4632
Often enough, lawyers would love to avoid having their costs taxed. Under the repealed but still operative Legal Profession Act 2004, lawyers could contract out in advance of the obligation to have their fees reviewed by taxation with ‘sophisticated clients’, but I do not recall ever having seen anyone attempt to do so. When lawyers […]
Tags: Costs agreements · costs disclosure defaults · costs disputes · Legal Profession Act · Professional fees and disbursements · setting aside costs agreements · Taxations · The suit for fees
June 21st, 2015 · 4251No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F2015%2F06%2F21%2Ftransitional-arrangements-for-costs-provisions-of-legal-profession-uniform-law%2FTransitional+arrangements+for+costs+provisions+of+Legal+Profession+Uniform+Law2015-06-21+08%3A00%3A57stephenhttp%3A%2F%2Flawyerslawyer.net%2F%3Fp%3D4251
Further update, 15 February 2017: The Victorian Legal Services Commissioner has formally advised me, and authorised me to tell you, that he will treat the transitional provisions as meaning that where the solicitor’s retainer is governed by the 2004 Act, so too will barristers’ retainers by the solicitor be governed by that Act, even if the […]
Tags: Costs agreements · costs disclosure defaults · Professional fees and disbursements · Taxations