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Costs: Mental capacity and retainers
Paul Jones examines what the position is when a client loses capacity part way through proceedings ‘If the claimant solicitors had been acting without authority, the fact that the defendant had dealt with them on the basis of their ostensible authority would not give rise to any form of estoppel on the defendant.’ In many …
Cases Referenced
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- Blankley v Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust [2014] EWHC 168 (QB)
- Findley v Barrington Jones [2009] EWHC 90130 (Costs)
- J Lauritzen AS v Wijsmuller BV (The Super Servant Two) [1990] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 1