Example sentences of "[prep] [art] solicitors " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , in the present case it would have been , I think , impossible for the solicitors , however careful they had been , to make an assessment which accurately reflected the remuneration which would have been paid to them and to counsel after the matter had been considered under the arrangements provided by the legal aid board . |
| 2 | The facts are stated in the judgment of Scott L.J . and Leslie Kosmin for the solicitors and Thomas Lowe for the S.I.B . |
| 3 | If the second reminder produces no result or the reply to either reminder seems to indicate the need for court intervention the matter will be referred to a master or district judge , who will have the power to issue a summons for the solicitors of one or both sides to come and explain matters . |
| 4 | This warranty has arisen from US practice but in the UK the acquirer 's solicitors should check on the seller 's authorities as it is not usual practice for the solicitors of one party to render a formal legal opinion to another party , each party being expected to seek and rely on advice from its own solicitors . |
| 5 | Patterson had arranged for the solicitors in Bloomsbury to ring him immediately the jiffy bag arrived , so that end was covered and I was pretty sure that 's where the Airborne messenger was heading without further interruptions . |
| 6 | N. B. The third party action between the solicitors and the barrister did not decide that he was negligent merely that if he was negligent he would be liable to the solicitors . |
| 7 | The missives had been concluded between the solicitors for the purchaser , Messrs Ferguson & Forster , and the solicitors for the seller , Messrs Macfie & Alexander . |
| 8 | Now between during the period from the decision of Mr Justice in March nineteen ninety one and the issue of the sealed order in May nineteen ninety three , it 's clear from correspondence which has been put before me that there were er various negotiations and discussions between the solicitors for the plaintiff and the defendant dealing with the questions of costs and also with the question of a general settlement of the whole action , er it would be appreciated of course that Mr Justice order does not have the effect of determining finally the rights of the parties , erm other than the partnership has in fact dissolved because there were still outstanding issues in particular relating to the premises which were used as the surgery of the premises of the part of the prac of the practice or perhaps I should say former practice . |
| 9 | Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with . |
| 10 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 11 | Er and solicitors well they 're there the point is about the solicitors among other things they can er mediate when you have the sort of family who are going to fallout and I 'm afraid people do have families that are going to fall out . |
| 12 | You were asked whether you told Mr about the solicitors letter |
| 13 | Derek Bluston , of the solicitors Malkin Janners , says : ‘ To get involved in litigation you either have to be very rich or very poor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The collegiate nature of the solicitors ' occupational group en-courages and maintains a feeling of identity , colleague loyalty and shared values . |
| 16 | The creation of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau ( SCB ) in September 1986 was The Law Society 's answer to critics of the complaints machinery . |
| 17 | Perhaps the lion 's share of the costs of formation is the professional fees of the solicitors and accountants involved in a formation . |
| 18 | Lastly , interviews were carried out with panel members , and with some of the solicitors who had had black clients , to explore their perceptions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But it is necessary to examine the arguments advanced on behalf of the solicitors . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |