Update, 13 July 2008: A commenter, 'purplehazel', has provided such a learned response that I repeat it below.  Let's keep working on this problem people, and see what the readers of this blog can come up with:
I think asking for “authority for the proposition that a solicitor may terminate a client retainer where the relationship [...]

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This post is like a case book(let) rather than a text. It sets out the raw materials which bear upon the question of who as between solicitor and client owns (in the sense of is entitled to the original of) what documents typically found in a solicitor's file. It is very long, and largely unsummarised: [...]

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This post is a companion to this longer companion post which discusses the other cases on the question of who, as between solicitor and client, is entitled to documents relating to their matter found on solicitors' files and in their accounts. As the decision with the most detailed consideration of the question, it gets [...]

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In Khoury v Gonvales [2006] NSWSC 1290, Mr Khoury, a solicitor, got from Justice Barrett of the NSW Supreme Court a declaration that he was entitled to a fruits of litigation lien. He had acted for Mr Sef Gonzales in a suit against the executrix of the will of Teddy Gonzales, and won. Sef got [...]

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