+1 Ravima's post.
The solicitor is right about the party and party costs not covering the submission to PIAB.
He does not have a lien on your damages cheque.
Actually, the solicitor almost certainly has a lien of sorts if he\she has issued a proper engagement letter and got the client to sign it. My engagement letter, always signed by the client, authorises me to lodge their settlement cheque, to discharge any outlays and to retain (but not take) the amount of my fee until the final amount is settled. I also include an explanation of the resolution mechanisms available if there is a disagreement on the fee.
SNIP SNIP.
I think this is a case of the old 'tradition' that a solicitor charges 10% of the claim on top of charges. Well known in the legal circles up to the naughties.
Perhaps he was but the plaintiffs claim included compensation for loss of memory every now and then .....That would be in perfectly good order as you have acted properly and professionally in making the contractual arrangement up front with the client.
What concerns me here is that the OP seems not to have entered in to any such agreement with his solicitor and he is now having something imposed upon him that was not agreed previously.
I know PIAB pay no costs but I'm not completely sure my solicitor did not get any of these costs back from the other side
And why can't he give me a breakdown of costs or any amount of costs for that matter that he recovered from the other side when the judge awarded me costs? Seeing that the case was over at the end of September
That's very close to telling him you'll call Joe Duffy. Maybe just ask first?Tell him you will contact the Law Society.Plenty of reports in the papers lately about solicitors messing about with peoples compensation money!!!!
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