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Master Julia Clark said a sister and brother ran up ‘disproportionate’ legal bills during a dispute over their father’s estate.
By Press Association 2021 The High Court in London A judge recalled an observation about unhappy families by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy after hearing how a sister and brother ran up lawyers’ bills of more than £120,000 during a High Court argument related to their late father’s £350,000 estate. The judge, Master Julia Clark, said the amounts run up by Sharon Hudman and Alan Morris, following the death of their father, Barry Morris, were “on any basis disproportionate”. Master Clark said the case was another example of Tolstoy...
By John Hyde2021-01-07T09:53:00+00:00 A high-profile solicitor has lost a High Court dispute with the Solicitors Regulation Authority over its request for documents as part of an investigation into her firm. Soophia Khan, sole principal of Leicester firm Sophie Khan & Co, said she had complied with a notice to produce documents, related to two complaints, by dropping the files off in person at SRA headquarters in May 2019. The SRA said the documents had not been received and pursued a claim against the firm. Following a one-day hearing in November in High-profile solicitor said she hand-d...