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Conditional fee agreements

complies with such requirements (if any) as may be prescribed by Lord Chancellor; and (d) is not a contentious business agreement, R (Factortame Ltd) v. Transport Secretary (No 8) (CA), (2002) 3 WLR 1104 (Courts and Legal

Client

Client [fr. cliens, Lat., said to contain the same element as they verb clueo, to hear of obey, and accordingly compared by Niebuhr with the German word hoeriger, a dependent], a person who seeks advice of...

Citation

Citation, a summons to appear, applied particularly to process in the spiritual, probate, and matrimonial courts, see Tristram v. Coote, (English) Probate Pr. And Probate Rules, 1862 and (non-contentious) 1925; a reference to authorities in support...

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Discordful

Full of discord contentious

Administrative business

Administrative business, the business of managing conducted in private by persons having complete discretion, as distinguished from judicial business, which is conducted in Court under specific rules as to evidence, etc. In the Chancery Division the...

Dissentious

Marked by dissensions apt to breed discord quarrelsome contentious factious

Dissensious

Disposed to discord contentious dissentious

Dissension

in opinion usually of a violent character producing warm debates or angry words contention in words partisan and contentious divisions breach of friendship and union strife discord quarrel

Debateful

Full of contention contentious quarrelsome

Proceeding

court or industrial tribunal or any other authority on whom jurisdiction is conferred by law to dispose of contentious matters are understated by the term 'proceeding', Workmen of Bali Singh Bhagwan Singh v. Management, 1968 ILR 2

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