A barrister’s $320,000 bill for a case initially estimated to cost $60,000 in counsel fees was at the centre of an appeals court hearing Monday, and the dispute mirrors another battle between the practitioner and his instructing solicitor involving a cost blowout of a quarter of a million dollars.

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