Piper Double Glazing Ltd v D.C. Contracts (A Firm)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1994
Year1994
CourtQueen's Bench Division

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20 cases
  • Agassi v Robinson (Inspector of Taxes) (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 December 2005
    ...analysis of what "acting as a solicitor" means. The issue arose more recently in the context of an arbitration in Piper Double Glazing Ltd v DC Contracts [1994] 1 WLR 777. The claimant, who was represented by a claims consultant, was successful in arbitrations and was awarded costs. On the ......
  • Malone and Another v Laois County Council and Others
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 23 June 2025
    ...she acts as a solicitor, as that term is construed under the Solicitors Acts 1954 to 2011”. 42 Piper Double Glazing v DC Contract Co [1994] 1 All ER 177, [1994] 1 WLR 43 Re Drinan [2012] NIQB 76. 44 Court of Appeal of England and Wales. 45 Agassi v Robinson (Inspector of Taxes) (Costs) [......
  • R (Factortame Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (No 8)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 July 2002
    ...sometimes carried on by a solicitor and sometimes by a person who has no right to conduct litigation. 26 Thus, in Piper Double Glazing Ltd v D.C. Contracts [1994] 1 WLR 777 where the issue was whether the fees for the services of claims consultants in relation to the conduct of an arbitrati......
  • Noueiri v Paragon Finance Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 September 2001
    ...by the Incorporated Law Society [1885] 1 TLR 354); and representing a party at an arbitration (see Piper Double Glazing v DC Contracts [1994] 1 All ER 177, 183j -184b, 186d-h). Human Rights Act 1998 69 The Court is of course bound to consider whether any order it makes would contravene the ......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Legal Profession
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...the doing of acts by a person pretending or holding himself out to be a solicitor: see Piper Double Glazing Ltd v DC Contracts (1992) Ltd[1994] 1 WLR 777. In Singapore, however, a wider test is applied which is derived from the judgment of Cussen J in a Victoria case, Re Sanderson, ex p Law......