“…llowing the recent decisions of this court in Belsner v. Cam Legal Services Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1387, [2023] 1 WLR 1043 (Belsner) and Karatysz v. SGI Legal LLP [2022] EWCA Civ 1388, [2023] 1 WLR 1071 (Karatysz), which, in our view, highlights the inadequacy of the 1974 Act for the purposes of regulating the relationship between solicitors…”
“…For the reasons that I have given in Karatysz v SGI Legal [2022] EWCA Civ 1388, which was heard immediately following this case, the question to ask in order to determine “the amount of the bill” under section 70(9) of the 1974 Act is “wh…”