When is the deadline for absolute bar: no assessment on client's application 12 months after payment?
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- None. This is a jurisdictional bar, not a discretion. The court has no power to order assessment on the client's application once 12 months have run from payment, however strong the special circumstances. There is no extension, no relief and no saving for late discovery.
- The hardest date in the Solicitors Act regime and the one that most often defeats a client. Contrast s.70(3)(c), which merely raises the test within the 12 months. The bar applies only to applications by the party chargeable; it does not restrict the solicitor's own right to apply under s.70(2). Verified against the latest available revised text on legislation.gov.uk, which rec