Professional negligence advice
Advice about professional negligence claims
Professional negligence is a complex and specialist area of law. Professionals and their insurers use large law firms with years of experience to try and defeat professional negligence claims. It is therefore important you ensure you are represented by lawyers with equivalent experience and knowledge. Our focussed approach and our ability to negotiate in highly contentious situations enable us to achieve the best results for our clients.
The Irwin Mitchell professional negligence team deals with disputes against all manner of professionals including accountants, architects, insurers, financial advisers, solicitors, surveyors and tax consultants. We also act for all kinds of clients including individuals, directors, companies and banks.
We are experts in pursuing professional negligence claims
We are the UK’s leading firm for pursuing professional negligence claims with offices located in major cities throughout England and Scotland. We are one of only a few firms who have a specialist team dedicated to this field of law. We are also able to draw upon the firm’s experience in a wide range of legal and business sectors.
We have unrivalled experience and the broad range and high quality of our work reflects this. We are currently acting in cases worth in excess of £23m.
About professional negligence claims
Our work is varied and our experience extensive. In the claims that we bring, professional reputations are at stake and there are often restrictions on what we can say about our cases.
However we have set out below examples of the work which we undertake:
- Claims against solicitors and barristers arising from failed litigation
- Claims against surveyors for failing to properly value or identify defects with property
- Misselling of financial products such as pensions, share portfolios, endowments and with profits policies
- Claims against architects, often jointly with engineers and builders
- Negligent tax advice, in particular inheritance tax planning
We provide an early assessment of the merits of your case and we are proactive and cost effective in seeking a successful resolution on your behalf. We will explore solutions to bring an early resolution to cases without the need for court proceedings. However if this is not possible we deliver focussed support, practical guidance and effective representation drawing on the whole firm’s knowledge and resource to achieve the best results for our clients.
Professional negligence advice
When you enlist the help of professionals, you have a right to expect a certain standard of care. Where professional negligence causes financial loss we can help you to take action.
We will thoroughly investigate your case and provide you with a realistic assessment of your case. Where necessary we will obtain expert evidence. We will then advance the claim on your behalf to the professional and his insurers and we will actively seek to negotiate a settlement of your claim without the need for court proceedings.
Funding your professional negligence case
The professional negligence team is committed to providing you with the latest funding options and we are able to offer a variety of arrangements including privately paying fees, conditional fees and after the event insurance.
Public funding is available for very few professional negligence claims. We can however advise you whether you are likely to be eligible.
We will discuss your specific options at the outset of our instructions and we will do everything we can to assist in helping you choose the most appropriate route.
Call us now on 0870 1500 100 to arrange a consultation, or use the links above to drop us a line.