In this newsletter, Andrew Hogan and Matthew Smith 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 cases of Kenig v Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP [2023] EWHC 181 (SCCO) and Shepherd & Co v Peter Brealey [2022] EWHC 3229 (KB) are headed for the Court of Appeal.
