In this timely seminar, Matthew Smith and Andrew Hogan look at how the charges of solicitors acting as professional executors can be controlled and assessed by aggrieved beneficiaries through removal of the executors, assessment under section 71 of the Solicitors Act 1974 and through claims for an account, now that the case of Shepherd & Co v Peter Brealey [2022] EWHC 3229 (KB) is heading for the Court of Appeal.
