s 112 Effect of agreements with respect to contentious business
112.—(1) Such an agreement as is mentioned in section 111 does not affect the amount of, or any rights or remedies for the recovery of, any costs recoverable from the client by, or payable to the client by, any other person, and that person may, unless that person has otherwise agreed, require any costs payable or recoverable by that person to or from the client to be assessed according to the rules for the time being in force for the assessment of those costs.[Act 25 of 2021 wef 01/04/2022] (2) Despite subsection (1), the client is not entitled to recover from any other person, under any order for the payment of any costs which are the subject of the agreement, more than the amount payable by the client to the client’s own solicitor or law corporation or limited liability law partnership under the agreement. (3) Such an agreement is deemed to exclude any further claim of the solicitor or law corporation or limited liability law partnership beyond the terms of agreement in respect of any services, fees, charges or disbursements in relation to the conduct and completion of the business in reference to which the agreement is made, except such services, fees, charges or disbursements (if any) as are expressly excepted by the agreement. (4) Subject to the provisions of this Part, the costs of a solicitor or law corporation or limited liability law partnership, in any case where there is such an agreement as is mentioned in section 111, are not subject to assessment nor to the provisions of section 118.[Act 25 of 2021 wef 01/04/2022] (5) A provision in any such agreement that the solicitor or law corporation or limited liability law partnership —(a) is not liable for negligence; or (b) is relieved from any responsibility to which the solicitor or the law corporation or the limited liability law partnership would otherwise be subject as a solicitor or a law corporation or a limited liability law partnership, is wholly void.