The fixed fee that ran past its scope: fixed fee scope and the SRA Transparency Rules

AI Legal Case Management: ten minutes on running a law firm with AI · Oct 29, 2026 · 7m · transcript

A purchase quoted at a fixed fee for a freehold house turns up an extension built in breach of a covenant, and fourteen hours go on a fee priced for six without a word to the buyer. Saqib Khan, who owned a law firm for fourteen years and sits as a fee-paid county court judge, works through an illustrative figure for what fixed fee work past its scope costs a firm in a year, the three places where scope fails, what the SRA Code of Conduct and the Transparency Rules expect a firm to say about price, and the two documents a judge reads first when a fee dispute reaches court.

Then five things a…