Professional Negligence Solicitor in UK Law
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Balogun v Boyes Sutton and Perry (A Firm)
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It seems to me, however, that there is more substance in the second version of the appellant's case under this ground. In the Queen Elizabeth's School case a solicitor was asked to advise the school on the meaning of a restrictive covenant which the solicitor had negotiated. In subsequent legal proceedings in professional negligence against the solicitor the court was not asked to rule on the meaning of the covenant but only on whether there was real scope for doubt as to what it meant.
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Lillicrap v Nalder & Son (A Firm)
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The waiver can only extend to matters which are relevant to an issue in the proceedings and, privilege apart, admissible in evidence. There is no waiver for a roving search into anything else in which the solicitor or any other solicitor may have happened to have acted for the clients. But the waiver must go far enough not merely to entitle the plaintiff to establish his cause of action but to enable the defendant to establish a defence to the cause of action if he has one.
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Haward and Others v Fawcetts (A Firm) and Another
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It means knowing with sufficient confidence to justify embarking on the preliminaries to the issue of a writ, such as submitting a claim to the proposed defendant, taking advice, and collecting evidence: 'suspicion, particularly if it is vague and unsupported, will indeed not be enough, but reasonable belief will normally suffice'. In other words, the claimant must know enough for it to be reasonable to begin to investigate further.
In many cases the distinction between facts (relevant) and the legal consequence of facts (irrelevant) can readily be drawn. There may be difficulties in cases where a claimant knows of an omission by say, a solicitor, but does not know the damage he has suffered can be attributed to that omission because he does not realise the solicitor owed him a duty.
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Paragon Finance Plc (formerly National Home Loans Corpn Plc) v Freshfields (A Firm)
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A party cannot deliberately subject a relationship to public scrutiny and at the same time seek to preserve its confidentiality. He cannot pick and choose, disclosing such incidents of the relationship as strengthen his claim for damages and concealing from forensic scrutiny such incidents as weaken it. He cannot attack his former solicitor and deny the solicitor the use of materials relevant to his defence.
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Pickersgill and Another v Riley
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It is plain that when a solicitor is instructed by a client to act in a transaction, a duty of care arises. But it is also plain that the scope of that duty of care is variable. It will depend, first and foremost, upon the content of the instructions given to the solicitor by the client.
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Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd
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Not only would there be available to him any advice or material which had been given or obtained by his solicitor in support of his case in the dismissed action, but the principle of Armory v. Delamirie would apply and would impose upon the solicitor the onus of satisfying the Court that the plaintiff's claim in the dismissed action would not have succeeded had it been prosecuted with diligence. This would be a heavy onus to sustain after so great a lapse of time.
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The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
...... “solicitor” means a solicitor of the Senior Courts and, in ... the name of the relevant recognised professional body which is the source of the supervisor's ... of a liability to pay damages for negligence, nuisance or breach of a statutory, contractual ......
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Courts and Legal Services Act 1990
...... (unqualified person not to act as. solicitor) shall cease to apply in relation to proceedings ... . (b) whether he is a member of a professional or other. body which— . (i) has rules of ...negligence or contract. . (8) The Ombudsman may— . . ......
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Access to Justice Act 1999
...... on employees who are members of a professional body to. comply with the rules of the body. . ...between solicitor and client) applies, subsection (1) shall not ... from allegations relating to clinical negligence,. . . (b) conveyancing,. . . (c) boundary ......
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The emergence of solicitors’ tortious liability and the award of damages
Analyses the emergence of tortious liability on solicitors and the damages awarded against them for negligence in preparing wills, ie testamentary disposition, when this causes losses to beneficiar......... to inquiries fromhis instructing solicitor while they were walkingback from Westminster Hall ... of tortious liability on professional solici-tors and to make a critical analysis of ... against solicitors for their negligence in pre-paring wills (testamentary disposition) ......
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REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: Le Divorce, La Séparation de Corps et Leurs Effets en Droit International Privé Français et Anglais. (Étude de Droit Comparé.) By Peter Benjamin, m.a., ll.b. (Cantab.......... 1 F. A. MA”. PEOFES~IONAI, NEGLIGENCE. By J. P. EDDY, Q.c., with a Foreword by ... just as much as that owed by a solicitor, say, to his client? (And are factory ......
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Fitness and propriety in financial services in the 21st century
‘Fitness and propriety’ is a key qualifying condition of authorisation under the Financial Services and Markets Bill. Blandly stated, it is probably uncontroversial as a condition of authorisation.......... developed a specialist practice in professional negligence litigation. A major part of this work ...Philip Ryley is a solicitor and Head of the Pensions and Financial Services ......
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Land Registration and the Decline of Property Law
...... especially from the point of view of negligence claims because it is the accepted practice of ... change in registration policy – a solicitor acted in the purchase of a rural cottage to which .... . . . C. . THE PROBLEM OF PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE . We live in a claim-conscious ......
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Another "Failure To Advise" Case: Solicitor's Negligence Recast?
.... 1CL's expertise in professional negligence cases is. well-known, and in this recent case, a useful exploration of the. solicitor's duty to advise clients as to the merit of their. ......
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Another "Failure To Advise" Case: Solicitor's Negligence Recast?
.... 1CL's expertise in professional negligence cases is. well-known, and in this recent case, a useful exploration of the. solicitor's duty to advise clients as to the merit of their. ......
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Congratulations To Tom Sedley On His Qualification As A Solicitor
......I cover the whole range of disputes from complex clinical. negligence claims to contractual disputes to personal disputes. I. may specialise in ......
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Professional negligence: conveyancers on both sides of a property purchase found liable to a defrauded buyer
In Purrunsing v. A'Court & Co (a firm) and House Owners Conveyancers Limited (2016) EWHC 789 (Ch) Judge Pelling QC in the Chancery Division of the High Court held that both the buyer's and seller's.........This is an important decision because this is one of the few occasions where a seller's conveyancing solicitor, who does not usually owe any duty of care to a buyer, has been found to be liable to the buyer in circumstances where the seller's solicitors have ......
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Out of hours application (Queen's Bench Division)
Queen's Bench forms for use in cases such as personal injury, negligence and breach of contract....... . . . . Solicitor’s name . . . . . ... being made in compliance with your professional obligations . . . . . ......
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Chapter CG13030
...... suffered by an individual in a professional capacity such as unfair discrimination, libel or ... D33) - compensation for professional negligence in relation to an action in respect of a wrong or ... receive compensation because his or her solicitor was negligent in allowing a claim to become time ......
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ADMIRALTY, COMMERCIAL AND MERCANTILE COURT LISTING FORM
Commercial Court forms including claims and application notices....... all counsel for each party, or the solicitor in charge of the case if counsel is/are not yet ... . . professional negligence claims . . . provision of ......