Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/47/section/71
Timestamp: 2018-04-21 17:46:28
Document Index: 196752679

Matched Legal Cases: ['art. 2', 'art. 9', 'art. 2', 'art. 9', 'art. 2', 'art. 9', 'art. 2', 'art. 9', 'art. 2', 'art. 9', 'art. 2', 'art. 9', 'art. 2', 'art. 9', 'art. 2', 'art. 9', 'art. 2']

There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Solicitors Act 1974, Section 71.
71[F1Assessment] on application of third parties.E+W
(1)Where a person other than the party chargeable with the bill for the purposes of section 70 has paid, or is or was liable to pay, a bill either to the solicitor or to the party chargeable with the bill, that person, or his executors, administrators or assignees may apply to the High Court for an order for the [F2assessment] of the bill as if he were the party chargeable with it, and the court may make the same order (if any) as it might have made if the application had been made by the party chargeable with the bill.
(a)that the bill be [F3assessed] on such terms, if any, as it thinks fit; and
(b)that such payments, in respect of the amount found to be due to or by the solicitor and in respect of the costs of the [F4assessment], be made to or by the applicant, to or by the solicitor, or to or by the executor, administrator or trustee, as it thinks fit.
(a)to the provisions of section 70 as to applications by the party chargeable for the [F5assessment] of a solicitor’s bill so far as they are capable of being applied to an application made under that subsection;
(6)Except in special circumstances, no order shall be made on an application under this section for the [F6assessment] of a bill which has already been [F7assessed].
(7)If the court on an application under this section orders a bill to be [F8assessed], it may order the solicitor to deliver to the applicant a copy of the bill on payment of the costs of that copy.
F1S. 71: word in section heading substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 66(a) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii) (with art. 9)
F2Word in s. 71(1) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 66(b) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii) (with art. 9)
F3Word in s. 71(3) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 66(c)(i) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii) (with art. 9)
F4Word in s. 71(3) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 66(c)(ii) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii) (with art. 9)
F5Word in s. 71(4) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 66(d) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii) (with art. 9)
F6Word in s. 71(6) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 66(e)(i) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii) (with art. 9)
F7Word in s. 71(6) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 66(e)(ii) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii) (with art. 9)
F8Word in s. 71(7) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 66(f) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii) (with art. 9)
C1S. 71 extended (1.1.1992) by Administration of Justice Act 1985 (c. 61, SIF 34), s. 9, Sch. 2 para. 22(2); S.I. 1991/2683, art. 2