Fee for preparation of account
19 Aug 05
An auditor’s or law accountant’s fee for assessing a solicitor’s fee from a file is not chargeable to the party paying without prior agreement
Where a solicitor sends his file to an Auditor of Court or a Law Accountant for a fee to be assessed this is not a taxation and the fee for such a reference is not chargeable to the party paying the account.
It is however open to solicitors to agree in advance with the client – in a Terms of Business Letter – that a fee for assessing will be chargeable.