Is there any case law where a solicitor’s entire account is assessed?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ellyn-Barristers v. Stone, 2006 CanLII 9703 (ON SC):
There is one question which remains to be determined and that is whether there are “special” or “compelling” circumstances warranting the ordering of the assessment of the solicitor’s entire account in the present case. Like negligence, the categories of “special circumstances” are never closed. T. Ducharme J. recently found in Laurin v. Zaldin, [2005] O.J. No. 1998 that the very size of the account warranted an assessment.
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