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Trusts and Estates

Applications by beneficiaries for assessment of solicitors' bills under s71(3) Solicitors Act 1974

Kenig v Thompson Snell & Passmore LLP [2023] EWHC 181 (SCCO)

The issue

A trustee instructs solicitors. The solicitors bill the trustee, and the trustee pays it from trust money. Can the beneficiaries apply for assessment of the bill?

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