15 Mar 1989
RE A SOLICITOR
- Citation
- RE A SOLICITOR
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV150/1988
The Court upheld the Disciplinary Committee's factual findings that the solicitor engaged in serious professional misconduct — gross overcharging, misrepresentation of work/time in bills, multiple billing for the same work, false entries regarding counsel's fees, breaches of the Solicitors' Accounts Rules, and obstruction of inspection — and rejected the solicitor's procedural and contractual arguments (abandonment of reliance on the fixed fee agreement and late contentions about hourly rates). Given the gravity and multiplicity of findings, striking the solicitor off the roll was a justified…