Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe in Hilton v Barker Booth & Eastwood

Where a solicitor, in breach of duty, takes on two clients with conflicting interests in the same transaction, he owes each the full duties of his retainer (including a duty to disclose material information) and cannot escape liability to one client by pleading that disclosure would have breached his duty of confidence to the other; the conflict is of his own making and he must answer for the loss caused.