Richard Buxton (a firm) v Mills-Owen (Law Society intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted February 25th, 2010 in appeals, costs, law reports, solicitors by sally

Richard Buxton (a firm) v Mills-Owen (Law Society intervening) [2010] EWCA Civ 122; [2010] WLR (D) 49

“It was wrong to restrict the circumstances in which a solicitor might lawfully terminate his retainer to those in which he was instructed to do something improper. Solicitors were under a professional duty not to advance arguments which they did not consider to be properly arguable and where a client insisted that such an argument should be advanced a solicitor was lawfully entitled to terminate his retainer.”

WLR Daily, 24th February 2010

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