Agreements as to fees

(1) Subject to this section, any attorney and his client may make an agreement as to the amount and manner of payment of remuneration for the whole or part of any legal business done or to be done by the attorney. fees. (2) An agreement under this section may– (a) provide for the remuneration of the attorney by a gross sum, percentage, commission, retainer, contingency fee or otherwise at a greater or lesser rate than that at which he would otherwise be entitled to charge; (b) be made on the term that the amount of the remuneration stipulated or shall or shall not include all or any disbursements made in connection with the matter or any costs recoverable in contentious business. (3) An attorney making an agreement under this section shall not be entitled to any further remuneration for the matters to which it relates other than those therein stipulated in the (4) A provision in an agreement under this section that the attorney is not liable for negligence or that he shall be relieved from any responsibility to which he would otherwise be liable as an attorney-at-law shall be void. (5) An agreement under this section shall be in writing and signed by the client or his agent in that behalf. (6) Subject to this section, an agreement under this section may be sued and recovered on or set aside in like manner and 28 on like grounds as an agreement not relating to the remuneration of an attorney-at-law, but if in any suit commenced for the recovery of fees the agreement appears to the court to be unfair and unconscionable the court may order that the agreement be cancelled or the amount payable under the agreement be reduced and may give consequential directions as it thinks fit. (7) Fees payable under an agreement made under this section shall not be subject to the provisions of this Part relating