Addleshaw Goddard Llp v Wood and Another: SCCO 8 Apr 2015

The issues addressed in this reserved judgment are the following:-
i) Is the Claimant (‘AG’) entitled to an order for a payment by the Defendants (‘the Administrators’) in the sum of pounds 12,663,822.95 for fees earned under a Contentious Business Agreement (‘CBA’) dated 26 October 2010?
ii) Is AG entitled to a declaration under Section 73 of the Solicitors Act 1974 (‘the Act’) that it is entitled to a charge on money held by the Administrators which have been recovered (so AG contends) through AG’s instrumentality to the value of pounds 12,663,822.95 until payment?
iii) Is AG entitled to any further order under Section 73 of the Act which might be required to give effect to any order for payment should one be made?

Master Campbell
[2015] EWHC B12 (Costs)
Bailii
England and Wales

Costs

Updated: 26 January 2022; Ref: scu.551056