The High Court ruled last week that a solicitor should not terminate his retainer because he disagrees with the client’s legitimate instructions. Mr Justice Mackay said: ‘If a client who is prepared to pay for a case to be advanced… wants the claim advanced on a particular basis, which does not involve impropriety on the part of the solicitor or counsel, then it is no answer for the solicitor to say that he believes it is bound to fail, therefore he will not do it.’

He added that he had ‘very considerable sympathy for the solicitors here, who had a very difficult problem and a difficult client. But the litigator’s back must be broad’. Click for more details. Whilst its one thing for solicitors to have to deal with difficult clients, how about difficult clients dealing with their lawyers? Consider this…

Following the conclusion of his murder case in the US this week, Angus MacIntyre awaits sentencing for shooting his former attorney, Jay BloomBecker, point-blank in the head on the night of June 14, 2006, in BloomBecker’s Live Oak office. The next day, MacIntyre turned himself in and confessed to sheriff’s deputies. His defense was that BloomBecker drove him to it by talking down to him and "screwing up" his workers’ compensation case.

The convicted man’s attorney in his murder trial bravely said he is not worried that he could be MacIntyre’s next target after losing the case adding, "That’s never been a concern." Rather him…

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