CAP. 159]
Is. 54 cont.]
Legal Practitioners.
(5) If the business covered by any such agreement is business done, or to be done, in any action, the amount payable under the agreement shall not be received by the solicitor until the agreement has been examined and allowed by a taxing officer of the court, and if the taxing officer is of opinion that the agreement is unfair or unreasonable, he may require the opinion of the court to be taken thereon and the court may reduce the amount payable thereunder, or order the agreement to be cancelled and the costs covered thereby to be taxed as if the agreement had never been made.
(6) When the amount agreed for under any such agreement has been paid by or on behalf of the client or by any person entitled so to do, the person making the payment may at any time within twelve months after payment apply to the court and the court if it appears to it that the special circumstances of the case require the agreement to be reopened, may on such terms as may be just, reopen the agreement and may order the costs covered thereby to be taxed and the whole or any part of the amount received by the solicitor to be repaid by him.
(7) Where any such agreement is made by the client as the guardian or committee of, or as a trustee under a deed or will for, any person whose property will be chargeable with the whole or any part of the amount payable under the agreement, the agreement shall, before payment, be laid before the taxing officer of the court, and that officer shall examine the agreement and may disallow any part thereof, or may require the opinion of the court to be taken thereon.
(8) Any such client as is mentioned in subsection (7) who pays the whole or any part of the amount payable under the agreement without the agreement having been allowed by the taxing officer or by the court, shall be liable to account to the person whose property is charged with the whole or any part of the amount so paid for the sum so charged and the solicitor who accepts the payment may be ordered by the court to refund the amount received by him.
at any
(9) In this section and in section 55 "court" means-
(a) in relation to an agreement under which any
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