Professional Negligence

Most professional people give correct advice to clients in a competent and efficient manner but unfortunately there are times when things go wrong. If this happens you may want to take advice from a specialist Professional Negligence solicitor.

To successfully claim any compensation for Professional Negligence, your solicitor will need to prove that a duty of reasonable skill and care existed and that this had been breached, causing you to suffer a financial loss.

Most professional advisers are required by their trade associations to have professional indemnity insurance to cover any liability they may incur as a result of their Professional Negligence. Therefore, their indemnity insurer will pay claims awarded against them.

Because of this indemnity insurance, many solicitors offer a no win-no fee service, which means that you do not have to fund your case and all of your compensation is paid to you in full.

After a free initial consultation to establish there is a case and that on the balance of probabilities the claim will succeed, work will commence.

The solicitor will want to establish that the mistake made was one, which no reasonably competent professional should have made, and the level of financial loss sustained as a result.

Insurers defend compensation claims of this nature vigorously, instructing solicitors of the highest quality. It is therefore advisable to instruct your own specialist Professional Negligence solicitor to act on your behalf.