Can you trust a solicitor to keep his promise? This is not the start of a dodgy anti-lawyer joke or complaint, but a serious report on a wake-up call sounded by the Supreme Court in a recent case
Solicitor John Gould, senior partner of Russell-Cooke, explores the decision, which concerns solicitors’ undertakings and involved a corporate law firm.
As Gould writes, ‘millions of undertakings are given and performed each year’. He looks into the significance of the case, and at what counts as an ‘undertaking’ (a particularly important concept in property transactions).
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