Read the full judgment text of HCSA 000015/1979 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 22 February 1980.
1. A firm of solicitors sued in the Small Claims Tribunal on a bill of costs for a sum limited within the jurisdiction of the tribunal. The Defendant had gone to them and asked them to draw up a deed of reassignment under a mortgage. The solicitors accepted those instructions and then discovered that the mortgagee had died. It was therefore necessary for personal representation to be taken out on behalf of the mortgagee in order that the necessary reassignment could be executed. This took a cons