Professional Negligence Solicitor in UK Law
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Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd
... ... and themselves rendered liable for negligence to the plaintiff as their own former client" ... Court should always give the dilatory solicitor one more chance. The order should be that the ... It is, I think, a grave injustice to professional men to have a charge of this kind outstanding for ... ...
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White and Another v Jones and Another
... ... Jones's deliberate act or his negligence the plaintiffs had failed to obtain the benefit, ... damages from the testator's negligent solicitor under the principle known as contract with ... to his duties to the court and the professional duties imposed upon his profession, a solicitor ... ...
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Horton v Sadler and another
... ... of full recovery against his negligent solicitor was always a highly relevant consideration in ... The negligence of his solicitors gave rise to the need for a ... between the claimant's solicitors' professional indemnity insurers and the MIB the loss should ... ...
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Rondel v Worsley
... ... -JONES (instructed by the Official Solicitor) appeared as amicus curiae ... The ... Mr Worsley claiming "damages for professional negligence". He acted in person and wrote out his ... ...
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Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
... ... Heller was guilty of negligence in giving such a reference without making ... 17 In Nocton v. Ashburton a solicitor was sued for fraud. Fraud was not proved but he ... B (who might for example be a professional man such as an accountant or a solicitor or a ... ...
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Rondel v Worsley
... ... asked the Official Solicitor to instruct counsel to act as amici curiae ... cannot be sued by his client for negligence or lack of skill in presenting his client's case ... the facts before us to indicate any professional negligence or lack of skill on his part, and ... ...
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Ridehalgh v Horsefield; Watson v Watson (Wasted Costs Orders)
... ... (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor, London SW1) appeared as Amici Curiae ... be accorded immunity from claims for negligence by their clients : Rondel v Worsley [1969] 1 AC ... proceedings at the suit of their professional body and to a range of penalties which include ... ...
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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 ... whilst withholding it from all other professional men. In Hedley Byrne & Co. Ltd. v. Heller & ... did not enter into a contract with his solicitor or client ceased to be a ground of justification ... ...
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Bristol and West Building Society v Mothew
... ... by a mortgagee to recover from the solicitor who was acting for both mortgagor and mortgagee ... of anything more serious than negligence. Believing that the common law rules of causation ... loss to lenders following negligent professional advice and the collapse of the property market ... ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Etridge (No 2); Kenyon-Brown v Desmond Banks & Company (Undue Influence) (No 2); Bank of Scotland v Bennett; UCB Home Loans Corporation Ltd v Moore; National Westminster Bank Plc v Gill; Midland Bank Plc v Wallace; Barclays Bank Plc v Harris; Barclays Bank Plc v Coleman
... ... a claim by a wife for damages from a solicitor who advised her before she entered into a ... , his assumption of legal and professional responsibilities to her ought, in the ordinary ... cases as res ipsa loquitur has in negligence cases. It recognises an evidential state of ... ...
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