Underwood, Son & Piper v Lewis
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1894 |
| Year | 1894 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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44 cases
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Mills-Owens and another v Richard Buxton (A Firm)
...did.” Were the appellants entitled to terminate the retainer? 39 I am in no doubt that the retainer was an “entire contract”. In Underwood, Son, & Piper v Lewis [1894] 2 QB 306, Lord Esher MR explained: “when a man goes to a solicitor and instructs him for the purpose of bringing or defendi......
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Heather French v Carter Lemon Camerons LLP
...only of the retainer. He relied upon the decision in Richard Buxton v Mills-Owen [2010] 1 WLR 1997, following the earlier case of Underwood, Son & Piper v Lewis [1894] 2 QB 306 as authority for the proposition that the retainer in the present case was an entire contract. That proposition wa......
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Conway v Ratiu and Others
...and with it the fiduciary relationship, citing Donsland v Van Hoogstraten [2002] EWCA Civ 253, per Tuckey LJ at para 18, applying Underwood, Son & Piper v Lewis [1894] 2 QB 306. 70 Mr Tager added that there is no authority for the proposition that a solicitor acting for one company in a gro......
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Table of Cases
...[2000] Lloyd’s Rep PN 239, CA 211 Tyldesley v TML Plastics [1996] ICR 356, [1996] IRLR 395, EAT 115–116 Underwood, Son & Piper v Lewis [1894] 2 QB 306, 64 LJQB 60, 42 WR 517, CA 192 Uratemp Ventures Ltd v Collins [2001] UKHL 43, [2002] 1 AC 301, [2001] 3 WLR 806, [2001] 1 All ER 46 139 Vena......
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Legal Profession
...be a promising argument because a contentious business retainer is presumed to be an entire contract: see Underwood, Son & Piper v Lewis [1894] 2 QB 306 at 310 and Richard Buxton v Mills-Owens [2010] 1 WLR 199. Normally, where the retainer is an entire contract and successive bills are rend......
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Analysing Judgments: Techniques for Criticism
...were bound to carry on to the end; and, not having done so, they were not entitled to any costs: see Underwood, Son & Piper v Lewis [1894] 2 Q.B. 306. The law as to entire contract was put vividly by Sir George Jessel M.R., in In re Hall & Barker (1878) 9 Ch.D. 538, 545: ‘If a man engages t......