Beau Timothy John Hartnett trading as Hartnett Lawyers v Anthony Robert Bell as Executor of the Estate of the late Mabel Dawn Deakin-Bell

• 1. Courts and Judges
  2. › Supreme Court
  3. › Inherent jurisdiction
  4. › Supervisory jurisdiction over officers of the Court
  5. › Solicitors
  6. › Exorbitant overcharging
  7. › Whether Court can order solicitor to pay moneys to mortgagor pursuant to inherent jurisdiction to control charges and fees of officers of the Court
  8. › Whether inherent jurisdiction displaced by availability of alternative statutory remedies
  9. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 23
• 1. Costs
  2. › Solicitor's costs
  3. › Inherent jurisdiction
  4. › Quantification of overcharging
  5. › Where costs previously assessed as between mortgagee and mortgagor
  6. › Whether Court adopted costs assessment in exercise of inherent jurisdiction
  7. › Whether assessment conducted on indemnity basis
• 1. Legal Practitioners
  2. › Solicitors
  3. › Costs agreement
  4. › Where costs agreement between solicitor and mortgagee
  5. › Whether inherent jurisdiction extends to requiring solicitor to pay amount exorbitantly overcharged to mortgagee to mortgagor
  6. › Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld), ss 308, 313, 315
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Where relief granted in inherent jurisdiction not sought in originating process but claimed in points of claim
  4. › Whether denial of procedural fairness
  5. › Whether party on notice of claims against him

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