The Importance of Complying with the Solicitors Act 1974

Case of BLOOMSBURY LAW SOLICITORS v HOWARD MACPHERSON (2016) considering the importance of complying with the Solicitors Act 1974 in Solicitor-own client assessment. A Master had been entitled to find that two costs bills served on a client by a solicitors’ firm did not comply with the Act. Although it was found in this case that there was no serious procedural irregularity and there had been no injustice, it highlights the importance to be given to the requirements of the Act when preparing a Solicitor own Client bill of costs for assessment.