Clause 116

Such an agreement as is mentioned in section 115 of this Act shall not affect the amount of, or any rights or remedies for the recovery of, any costs recoverable from the client by any other person or payable to the client by any other person, and any such other person may require any costs payable or recoverable by him to or from the client to be taxed according to the rules for the time being in force for the taxation of such costs, unless such other person has otherwise agreed: Provided always that the client who has entered into such an agreement shall not be entitled to recover from any other person, under any order for the payment of any costs which are the subject of such agreement, more than the amount payable by the client to his own solicitor under the same.

Such an agreement shall be deemed to exclude any further claim of the solicitor beyond the terms of agreement in respect of any services, fees, charges or disbursements in relation to the conduct and completion of the business in reference to which the agreement is made, except such services, fees, charges or disbursements, if any, as are expressly excepted by the agreement.

Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, the costs of a solicitor in any case where there is such agreement as is referred to in section 115 of this Act, shall not be subject to taxation nor to the provisions of section 122 of this Act.

A provision in any such agreement that the solicitor shall not be liable for negligence, or that he shall be relieved from any responsibility to which he would otherwise be subject as such solicitor, shall be wholly void.