| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2004] All ER (D) 247 (Oct) |
| Neutral Citation: | [2004] EWHC 2289 (QB) |
| Court: | Queen's Bench Division |
| Judge: | Wilkie J |
| Representation | The claimant appeared in person. |
| Oliver Ticciati (instructed by Hill Dickinson) for the defendants. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 19 October 2004 |
Catchwords
Solicitors - Duty of care - Breach of retainer - Withdrawal of judicial review action.
The Case
In the circumstances of the case, the defendant solicitors had acted in breach of their retainer and negligently in compromising the claimant's judicial review claim in so far as they failed to inform the claimant that consent had been obtained from the other parties to the judicial review action, or that they had sent the order to the court acting as her solicitors, or that the order had subsequently been made.
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