27 Oct 2016
SMITH FREEHILLS (A FIRM) v. CHEN TE KUANG MIKE AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- SMITH FREEHILLS (A FIRM) v. CHEN TE KUANG MIKE AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA3071/2015
The retainer terms established monthly billing payable within 30 days and authorising monthly bills as final in their own right; on the facts each monthly bill was a final bill. The first bill had been paid and more than 12 months had elapsed so the Court had no power to allow taxation of it. The clients had bona fide objections to the remaining eight bills and the solicitors' partial failure to comply with the Code of Conduct (Chapter 4.12) constituted special circumstances justifying leave to tax those bills; the Court therefore granted leave to tax the eight bills subject to procedural con…