Business Solicitors

Inadequate advice

Sometimes in life we need to be able to rely on experts to help us out. This might mean your financial advisor, your accountant, your house surveyor, your architect or anyone else who does important work for you professionally. Unfortunately, sometimes these people let us down – and do so badly. Sometimes we’re given ill informed advice that we act on, and sometimes a professional service simply fails to deliver on a promise. When professionals are paid for their advice and service then they enter into an ethical and legal duty to provide that advice and service well. Inadequate advice can cause you tremendous problems in the short term and long term. Our professional negligence solicitors work on behalf of clients who have experience bad advice from the people they pay to advise them.

Litigation lawyers

It’s vital that you are represented by an expert professional negligence solicitor if you need to act against the bad advice or service you received from a paid professional. More importantly than in many litigation cases, insurers often use the best lawyers to defend their clients, so you must use solicitors who specialise in professional negligence cases.

Expert Solicitors

Our experts are hand picked from a pool of some of the very best litigation companies in the United Kingdom. Our experts include legal forensic specialists, medical experts and many other types of lawyer who can investigate your case in detail. We always give you a realistic assessment of your situation – we tell you what we think your chances of success will be. We also tell you what we expect you will gain in compensation for your loss and always work to recover the maximum amount you are due.

Standard of Care

Professional men and women will typically provide you with a good service and usually enjoy a high customer satisfaction rating. However, since they have undertaken to charge money for their services and advice, it is their duty not to make mistakes. Errors of professional judgement can cause massive harm to you or your company. Sometimes these errors can cause such huge financial loss that you simply have no choice but to pursue legal action to recover the lost money or assets.

Legally speaking, the professional in question is always under a legal duty to provide all services with ‘reasonable skill and care’. In effect this means their service must be the same, in terms of quality, to other professionals in the area providing the same service. The court that makes the ultimate decision does not judge if the professional is actually an expert or not – rather they exist to decide if that person was behaving reasonably or not.

Cause of loss

When this court decides that the professional was not acting as he or she should have been, we then move on to show the court how this unreasonable behaviour has caused you loss in financial terms. At this stage, claims can sometimes be lost if the defendant can show that the path of action would have been followed regardless of their suggesting it, or that their advice was not instrumental in the actions that led to loss being taken.

Financial element

Actual financial losses must then be proved. There is however one type of loss that cannot be directly claimed – those that are considered to be ‘too remote’. This basically means that you cannot claim compensation for losses that were not the direct result of the bad advice you were given. This also includes losses which are not reasonably foreseeable. With so many little details involved, it is crucial that you choose to use a legal team that specialises in this type of claim. We suggest you seek free advice to begin with – simply fill in the contact form on this web page and one of our experts will call you to offer free legal advice, with no obligation to use our services. We’re always happy to help.