About our professional negligence services at Wright Hassall

OUR PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE TEAM

HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU

PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE

We engage professionals to advise us on many important matters in life. Solicitors, financial advisors, accountants, surveyors, and others provide vital guidance to us and assist us to make decisions with confidence.

These professionals owe us a general duty of care and must act in accordance with any contract for services that they enter with us. If they fail to perform their duty to the required standard or in accordance with the terms of a contract, and as a result we suffer a loss, they may be professionally negligent.

We have a long-established professional negligence practice which is broadly claimant focused. We act for both private individuals and businesses, focusing on getting clients the best results when it matters most.

Our team deals with many different types of negligence claims against a variety of professionals including:

• Solicitors - for the negligent handling of litigation, time limits, and other loss of chance claims in property, investment, and probate matters

• Tax and/or financial advisers - particularly relating to mis-selling products, tax schemes and disguised remuneration planning

• Surveyors - for under or overvaluing property or failing to report on defects or advise correctly on the extent of defects

• Insurers, including brokers - for failing to pay out under an insurance policy, or failing to advise correctly when recommending a product

• Claims on behalf of groups of claimants who instruct us to represent them in the same cause of action

OUR CREDENTIALS

SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE WORK…

We have a vast amount of experience across the team. Some recent examples that give an idea of the level of work we regularly undertake are:

• Pursuing a claim against clients’ former solicitor for negligent advice and actions relating to the sale of a company asset to the director/shareholder.

• Advising on a claim against a professional services company in relation to significant costs and loss of damages to the claimant due to the failure to accept an offer that was made in the original proceedings.

• Recovering well over six figures for a couple whose solicitors missed the limitation deadline to claim losses from the house builder who sold them a house with defective foundations.

• Successfully settling a claim against an insurance broker for failing to provide adequate and appropriate cover when advising a company on which Group Income Protection to obtain.

• Representing a group of clients who individually purchased investment properties in an off-build development. Several conveyancers involved in transferring the properties negligently failed to advise on the substantial charge registered against the development, resulting in all clients losing their deposits when the developer went into administration.

• Pursuing a claim against former accountants and a scheme promoter for negligently advising our clients to participate in aggressive tax avoidance schemes.

• Bringing a claim against clients’ former solicitors for negligent advice and actions in drafting a share purchase agreement when the clients sold their business.