“… “spoiled holiday cases” (see Jarvis v Swans Tours Ltd [1973] QB 233) and the case of the distressed litigant let down by her solicitors (see Heywood v Wellers [1976] QB 446). At p.857 Judge Clark noted that, when Parliament came to draft the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race Relations Act 1976, “it took care to make clear t…”
“…iginal action it would have precluded Forsters from recovering their fees if the work that they had done was, as is now alleged, useless (see Heywood v Wellers [1976] QB 446); or at the very least it would have operated by way of set off to the claim for fees because it would have been intimately connected with the liability to pay…”