A solicitor's fiduciary duty to make full disclosure of statutory scales, the principles underlying them, and the effect and consequences of a proposed costs agreement is not diminished by the shift from ad valorem to time-based costing under the 1996 Legal Costs Committee determination. A costs agreement will be cancelled as unreasonable if the client was not fully informed of these matters. The jurisdiction to enlarge time for taxation steps under s 68A(d) is vested exclusively in the taxing officer, not a Judge of the Supreme Court.
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