| About
our Charges
We will
be pleased to give you costs information at any time. In our letter to
you confirming instructions we will give the best information we can as
to the likely costs. If our letter does not do this, then ask us about
it.
When taking your instructions we will:-
- Discuss how your
legal charges are to be met. We do not undertake work under the Community
Legal Service Funding Scheme. If you are eligible for the Scheme and
wish to make an application to the Legal Services Commission, we will
not be able to take on your case for you;
- Advise you as
to whether conditional fee arrangements (“no win, no fee”)
may be appropriate;
- Explain that even
if you obtain an Order for someone else to pay your costs, the amount
you may recover from them may be less than the amount which you have
to pay us;
- Discuss with you
whether the value of any action you might be considering taking is worth
what it may well cost you in fees and expenses.
Value Added Tax (VAT) and all payments we make on your behalf (“disbursements”)
will be added to our final account.
We will confirm these arrangements in writing, explain what work they
cover, tell you about any other foreseeable payments which are likely
to be necessary, set out our terms for payment of bills and our right
to charge interest on an unpaid bill.
You can:-
- Set a limit of
costs to be incurred without further agreement with you (not the same
as an agreed fee); and
- Ask for details
of what costs have been run up at any stage.
We will tell you what
costs have been incurred at least every 6 months and usually ask you to
pay these.
We may ask for a payment on account of our costs and disbursements, especially
for Court/Tribunal work.
We may need to ask for further payments as the matter progresses. If you
think your bill is too much we will be pleased to explain how it has been
worked out. If you are still unhappy after that, we will explain your
rights to have the bill checked by the Law Society and/or the courts. |
