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You arrived at this page by selecting:A client is entitled to terminate a lawyer's instructions to act at any time. The lawyer must acknowledge this in writing, and the termination takes effect when they do. But once a lawyer has begun to provide a service with the client's consent termination cannot be retrospective unless a cooling off period applies.
A lawyer is entitled to decline to act, or to act further, without being obliged to assign any reason, and agreeing to act or continue does not oblige the lawyer to accept further or new instructions at any time or to to assign any reason for declining to do so. In particular a lawyer is entitled to cease acting where any payment required is not made, instructions are not given, or the lawyer cannot act in accordance with his responsibilities.
Termination (by client or lawyer) does not terminate the client's responsibility to pay for the work done before the termination in accordance with the terms of the contract unless a cooling off period applies.
This menu is about how you can stop using a lawyer once you have started.
Generally speaking, you can do this whenever you like, there is no minimum contract length. But you still have to pay for what the lawyer does before you stop.
