Focus On… Professional Liability

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Introduction

In our latest Focus On: Professional Liability, we have collated our activity and articles from recent months. We hope you find this useful.

Recent articles

Throughout recent months, the Gatehouse Chambers Professional Liability Team has continued to produce articles aimed at assisting those operating in this area. In case you missed any of these, just click on the links below:

Aggregation – solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance: an update on Baines v Dixon Coles & Gill
Questioning professionals – when should a client know that a professional has given them defective advice? Professional negligence claims and section 14A
Your breach of trust is my breach of trust: limitation and liability of innocent partners for wrongs committed by a co-partner
What is the scope of duty in clinical (and other professional) negligence claims? The latest word from the Supreme Court in Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2021] UKSC 20; and Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21

Upcoming events

Behind the Façade Series

The Construction, Property and Professional Liability Teams at Gatehouse Chambers have also joined forces to launch their Behind the Façade series of online talks looking at the issues arising out of façade and cladding claims. The series began in October 2021 and will run until June 2022. Click here to download the full programme.

You can sign up to any of these sessions by emailing our events team.

Professional Liability Series

Our Professional Liability Series came to a close last week. Recent topics covered have included:

The use of experts in claims against financial professionals
Surveyors’ negligence
Construction professionals’ negligence
Solicitors’ and barristers’ negligence

You can watch these sessions below.

Gatehouse Chambers #Brews

Our Professional Liability Team continues to host its #Brew series on Zoom; an informal chat that lets you in to our team’s thoughts and discussion surrounding current issues and practical challenges practitioners and their clients are facing. Look out for more dates in the next couple of weeks!

PNLA ‘Discovery’ Conference: Professional Negligence & Liability Update

James Hall is featured on an esteemed panel of speakers as part of an online conference for the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association, which is now available to stream and download via the PNLA’s website.

The conference is intended for professional negligence and liability practitioners to explore the direction of travel over recent months.

James discusses the thorny issue of aggregation in solicitors’ liability with a focus on Ralph v Ralph and Baines & Anor v Dixon Coles & Gill. View the full PDF programme here.

Recorded content

The use of experts in claims against financial professionals

Tom Bell and Martyn Griffiths examine when, both as a matter of law and also in practice, the Court is likely to give permission for expert evidence in financial adviser cases, both on liability and quantum.

Surveyors’ negligence

John de Waal KC and Priya Gopal discuss the recent developments in the law relating to surveyors’ liability both related to Covid-19 and generally.

Construction professionals’ negligence

Emma Hynes and Michael Levenstein discuss the developments in the law relating to construction professionals’ negligence, and the pros and cons of using adjudication as a means of resolving disputes.

Solicitors’ and barristers’ negligence

James Hall and Jack Dillon discuss the recent cases of MBS v Grant Thornton and Khan v Meadows and their impact on scope of duty in claims against solicitors and barristers, asking amongst other questions whether the new scope of duty principles mark a potential return to the scope of solicitors’ duties argued for by lenders in the late 1990s.

If you would like to access our full library of recorded content, please click here.