“…the client to identify what they were being charged for and whether to seek an assessment by the court (see the headnote and [70] inRalph Hume Garry v. Gwillim [2003] 1 WLR 510 (Gwillim), which seems to apply to non-contentious as well as contentious business, bearing in mind that section 69 of the 1974 Act applies to both contentious…”
“…Section 70 of the 1974 Act largely reflects much older legislation. As Ward LJ explained in Ralph Hume Garry v Gwillim [2002] EWCA Civ 1500, [2003] 1 WLR 510 (at paragraph 19), there is, more generally, “a marked similarity in the substance of the provisions of the [Solicitors Act 1843] and the 1974 Act”.…”