Complaints by the NHS Litigation Authority that “excessive” costs were charged by some claimants’ law firms have raised broader questions about the fees solicitors charge for personal injury work. An entirely unrelated judgment delivered at the end of last week has cast new light on an area normally kept confidential between lawyer and client.
The ruling suggested solicitors may be under a professional obligation to tell clients if the solicitors’ fees are potentially twice as high as those of their competitors. A specialist commentator said the judgment was “likely to reverberate across the claimant market as it challenges what has become a standard way of operating for many solicitors”.
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