Example sentences of "of the solicitors " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek Bluston , of the solicitors Malkin Janners , says : ‘ To get involved in litigation you either have to be very rich or very poor . |
| 2 | It incorporates consolidated texts of the Solicitors ' Accounts Rules 1991 and the Accountants ' Report Rules 1991 , together with changes made to the Rules in April 1992 . |
| 3 | The collegiate nature of the solicitors ' occupational group en-courages and maintains a feeling of identity , colleague loyalty and shared values . |
| 4 | The creation of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau ( SCB ) in September 1986 was The Law Society 's answer to critics of the complaints machinery . |
| 5 | Perhaps the lion 's share of the costs of formation is the professional fees of the solicitors and accountants involved in a formation . |
| 6 | Lastly , interviews were carried out with panel members , and with some of the solicitors who had had black clients , to explore their perceptions . |
| 7 | Section 37 of the Solicitors Act 1843 ( 6 & 7 Vict. c. 73 ) provided that no solicitor could commence an action for fees until one month after he delivered to his client a bill of fees . |
| 8 | Similarly , I think section 37 of the Solicitors Act 1843 deals , not with the right of the solicitor , but with the procedure to enforce that right . |
| 9 | Accordingly , it was the duty of the solicitors who were instructing counsel to make this claim and who , in correspondence , had evinced an intention to seek an order for costs against the local authority because of the supposed failure of the local authority to discharge its duty properly , to provide for the court a detailed statement of those costs ; moreover , to prepare that statement with proper care . |
| 10 | I assume that every effort will be made to ease the task by mutual cooperation of the solicitors and accountants concerned in order to carry out the court 's order . |
| 11 | The question whether the involvement of the solicitors in the manner pleaded in the four sub-paragraphs is sufficient to make them ‘ knowingly concerned ’ for the purposes of section 6(2) or section 61(1) of the Act has not been addressed . |
| 12 | But it is necessary to examine the arguments advanced on behalf of the solicitors . |
| 13 | On behalf of the solicitors Mr. Sumption argued that the power to make orders under section 6(2) was extended to persons concerned in the contravention because money ordered to be repaid , or contracts or securities ordered to be delivered up , or guarantees ordered to be cancelled may be in the hands of third parties , such as agents , assignees or chargees . |
| 14 | The debtor obtained an order from the county court that the statutory demand and bankruptcy petition be set aside on the ground that the service of the statutory demand had contravened the provision in section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 that ‘ no action shall be brought ’ to recover any costs due to a solicitor within one month of the bill having been delivered . |
| 15 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 16 | On 28 January 1992 District Judge Harris sitting in the Liverpool County Court granted the debtor 's application to set aside a statutory demand dated 15 August 1991 which had been served on the debtor on 21 August 1991 by the creditors , Marshalls , a firm of solicitors , in respect of their unpaid bill of 31 July 1991 , and dismissed the bankruptcy petition founded on that demand , which had been issued on 20 September 1991 , on the basis that the service of the statutory demand had contravened section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 17 | By a notice of appeal dated 25 February 1992 the creditors appealed on the ground , inter alia , that the service of a statutory demand was not the bringing of an action and therefore did not contravene section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 18 | In the end it seemed to be more or less common ground that the judge did not formally state his reasons when he made his order , although in the course of argument he had indicated that he had sympathy for the debtor 's argument based on section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 19 | Counsel for the debtor relied on section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 : |
| 20 | Some reliance was also placed on the fact that the 31 July bill did not comply with the requirements of section 67 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 21 | There is no requirement for costs payable out of the bankrupt 's estate , be they the costs of the petitioning creditor or the costs of the solicitors acting for the trustee , to be taxed ( r 7.34 ) . |
| 22 | The third area is that of media advertising by individual firms on the basis of the Solicitors ' publicity Code , which would be of advantage not just to the firms but to potential clients as well . |
| 23 | The arguments about the location , availability , approachability and cost of the solicitors ' offices emerge again in this context . |
| 24 | Contact the solicitor or secretary of your local County or District Council to ask if you can visit the offices and talk about the job to one of the solicitors . |
| 25 | The Law Society has successfully resisted a judicial review application by Mr Raymond Curtin concerning imposition of a condition on his practising certificate by an Assistant Director of the Solicitors complaints Bureau . |
| 26 | The Assistant Director was acting under the authority of a Council resolution made under Section 79 of the Solicitors Act 1974 [ as substituted by Section 97 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 ] . |
| 27 | Mr Curtin had been suspended from practice for three months in 1991 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the condition imposed by an Assistant Director of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau when Mr Curtin applied for renewal of his practising certificate was that of practising only in approved employment , as opposed to in approved partnership , which had been the condition applicable to Mr Curtin 's certificate prior to his suspension from practice . |
| 28 | The Model Contract Conditions set out fairly and succinctly the principle obligations of the solicitors and of the authority . |
| 29 | He is currently Chair of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 30 | Approve the amendment of the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 to provide for the Law Society to grant Remuneration Certificates to either [ i ] residuary beneficiaries in cases where the only executor is a solicitor acting in his or her professional capacity , with a review of the position one year from the date of implementation of the new SRO , or [ ii ] residuary beneficiaries in cases where at least one executor is a solicitor acting in his or her professional capacity . |