Professional Negligence in UK Law
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Rondel v Worsley
... ... it did not because a barrister cannot be sued by his client for negligence or lack of skill in presenting his client's case in court. I shall not ... —but there is nothing in the facts before us to indicate any professional negligence or lack of skill on his part, and nothing to indicate that the ... ...
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Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd
... ... for want of prosecution and themselves rendered liable for negligence to the plaintiff as their own former client" ... 4 Following those ... It is, I think, a grave injustice to professional men to have a charge of this kind outstanding for so long. It is ... ...
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Johnson v Gore Wood & Company (A Firm)
... ... On 8 January 1991 WWH started proceedings for professional negligence against GW. In those proceedings GW admitted that it owed WWH a ... ...
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Perry v Raleys Solicitors
... ... of some 25,000 similar claims, established that there had been negligence on the part of the National Coal Board, later British Coal, in failing to ... Much later, in February 2009, he issued professional negligence proceedings against Raleys, claiming that by reason of their ... ...
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Barratt v Ansell (t/a as Woolf Seddon); Arthur JS Hall & Company v Simons
... ... Clients raised claims in negligence against firms of solicitors. In response the solicitors relied on the ... an immunity on advocates whilst withholding it from all other professional men. In Hedley Byrne & Co. Ltd. v. Heller & Partners Ltd. [1964] A.C ... ...
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Cuckmere Brick Company Ltd v Mutual Finance Ltd
... ... 6 The defendants denied any default or negligence on their part and counterclaimed some £14,200, being the balance of all ... Geering & Colyer were guilty of professional negligence they did not act "recklessly" within the meaning of that word ... ...
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Flannery and Another v Halifax Estate Agencies Ltd, trading as Colleys Professional Services
... ... The purchaser withdrew, and the Flannerys then sued the valuers for professional negligence in relation to Mr Haining's original valuation ... 6The valuers' defence, both as set out in the pleadings and in the trial as conducted, centred on ... ...
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Gregg v Scott
... ... of what constitutes injustice in a common form type of medical negligence case. Some believe a remedy is essential and that a principled ground for ... to reproach were it to provide a remedy if what is lost by a professional adviser's negligence is a financial opportunity or chance but refuse a ... ...
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Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority
... ... appeal raises two questions relating to liability for medical negligence. The first, which I believe to be more apparent than real, relates to the ... The second concerns the approach to professional negligence laid down in Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee ... ...
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Whitehouse (A.P.) (Suing by his Mother and Next Friend Eileen Whitehouse) v Jordan and Others
... ... he claims that the damage to his brain was caused by the professional negligence of Mr. J. A. Jordan who was Senior Registrar at the hospital at ... ...
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