Where beneficiaries initiated and pursued assessment of a professional executors costs under s.71(3) Solicitors Act 1974, billed at £147,436.33, and took a ‘belligerent approach in characterising a generally unremarkable body of costs as extraordinary in amount’, the Court finds ‘it is fair for the Claimants to bear the costs of these detailed assessment proceedings’ assessed at £132,400 + VAT: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/scco/2026/208
Charles Cooper | Barrister 