What is the test for an employment contract between a lawyer and a client?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from McQuarrie, Hunter v. Foote, 1982 CanLII 489 (BC CA):
It has been said, and I agree with Seabury J. in Martin v. Camp (1916), 219 N.Y. 170, 114 N.E. 46 (N.Y.C.A.), that the nature and character of a contract under which a lawyer is employed by a client has peculiar and distinctive features which differentiate it from ordinary contracts of employment.
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