LCRO 33/2016 GW v AX (27 June 2018) [pdf, 292 KB]
...engagement said: Until you have paid your account in full, we shall be entitled to retain all your deeds, documents and files and all the deeds and documents and files of third parties provided to us on your behalf in relation to your work. [101] It is, in my view, essential that a lawyer who includes a provision in their terms of engagement authorising them to exercise a lien on their client’s file contents if an account is not paid, should ensure that if the encompassing of pass...