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unjust enrichmentconditional fee agreement
Winros Partnership v Global Energy Horizons Corporation
[2026] EWCA Civ 654
Key Principle
The law of unjust enrichment cannot be used to subvert the express risk allocation freely negotiated by parties to a valid contract; a solicitor who elects to accept a client's repudiatory breach of a conditional fee agreement rather than invoke the contractual termination clause does not thereby create a 'failure of basis' entitling it to restitution.
Area of Law
General
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