Read the full judgment text of HCA 010165/2000 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 5 November 2003.
1. The first and then second defendants in turn represented the plaintiff as his solicitors in an action brought by him against another firm of solicitors, the senior partner of that firm and an assistant solicitor employed by that firm. When at trial the action appeared doomed the plaintiff accepted his solicitor's and counsel's advice to drop the case and settle as best as he could the other side's costs. And he did.