The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has cleared a former head of private client of overcharging an estate after he charged a client a fixed fee of £45,000 plus disbursements on an estate worth approximately £1.1 million.

However, the SDT rejected the fact that the case, which was brought by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) against Derwent William Moger Campbell, was a “shambles” and as such did not award costs to Mr Campbell.

Born in 1952, Mr Campbell was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1982. At the time the case relates to he was a partner and head of private client at Mogers Solic...