Solicitor
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Mastercigars Direct Ltd v Withers LLP
Trademark dispute – Solicitor’s retainer – Reasonableness – Claimant instructing defendant solicitor – Solicitor giving estimate of likely costs – Final figure exceeding estimate – Costs judge holding defendant not…
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PP 2007/54
Duty of care owed by solicitors
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Stone Heritage Developments Ltd and others v Davis Blank Furniss
Damages – Land – Development agreement – Solicitor’s retainer in respect of agreement for development of land – Appellants instructing respondent solicitor to draw up terms of agreement – Whether…
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PP 2004/14
The courts have upheld several professional negligence claims over the past few months, including:. – Maden v Clifford Coppock & Carter (a firm) [2004] EWCA Civ 1037; [2004] PLSCS 203;.
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PP 2002/160
On or beyond the fringe of the retainer?. A solicitor (or other professional) is instructed to takes steps A, B and C that are required by a clause in a…
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PP 2002/120
Deliberate concealment of fact. Central to many claims for professional negligence is an allegation that the defendant left something out that a reasonably competent adviser would have put in.
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PP 2002/100
Solicitor failing to attend to matters of title – Failure and other factors disabling claimant from selling – Value of property rising in meantime – Causation .
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PP 2002/54
A quick reading of replies to standard enquiries relating to building consents may indicate that there is nothing more to investigate.
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PP 2000/92
“The principle that underlies rule 6A is that it is wrong for a seller to deal simultaneously with more than one potential buyer, unless each of the buyers is made…
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PP 2000/139
Q A purchaser’s solicitor, who is required to remit a large part of the purchase price to the vendor’s mortgagee, pays the entire price to the vendor’s solicitor against an…
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PP 2000/62
For someone intending to buy a property abroad, the lesson to be learned from Gregory v Shepherds [2000] 50 EG 100 is that it may pay to instruct an English…