A West Australian lawyer has been ordered to hand over more than $100,000 to a former client, after the state’s Supreme Court found the lawyer charged excessive amounts of money for work that was described as “wasted” and “inappropriate”.
Handing down his judgment yesterday, Supreme Court registrar Christopher Boyle found the lawyer, referred to in court documents as Mr K, charged his client, Mr M, more than $330,000 for legal representation in a family law dispute between November 2008 and April 2010.
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