Tue, 01 Aug 2017 10:34:20 +0000 By CHINTU MALAMBO BCM Legal Practitioners is suing its former client, Focus Financial Services over unpaid legal fees amounting to over K60, 000. The lawyers are also claiming interest on the amount, at the current banking and lending rates. According to a statement of claims filed in the Lusaka High Court, the firm indicated that on 13th January, 2015, it was engaged to prosecute claims on behalf of the financial company, on the debt collect portfolio. The plaintiff charged that the two parties agreed that the law firm would get 10 percent of all successful debt and that the Legal Practitioners Act would govern the billing agreement. “It was an express term agreement that we would be entitled to ten percent of all successfully collected debts and that the Legal Practitioners Act Chapter of the Laws of Zambia shall govern the billing arrangements. It was also an express agreement […]
