Professional Indemnity

Published quarterly  'Legal Matters - Professional Indemnity' aims to highlight developments and new case law affecting the liability of professionals in a concise and readable style.

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March 2010: Legal Matters - Professional Indemnity, Issue 8
Contents include:

  • Solicitors – adverse inferences
  • Professional negligence litigation – application of ex turpi principle
  • Insurers – access to files held by Law Society

November 2009: Legal Matters - Professional Indemnity, Issue 7
Contents include:

  • Duty to disappointed beneficiary
  • Remedy for breach of undertaking
  • Insurance – ambiguous question in proposal form

July 2009: Legal Matters - Professional Indemnity, Issue 6
Contents include:

  • Duty to advise on issues outside scope of retainer
  • Construction: when can insurers avoid for material non-disclosure?
  • Quantum and apportionment of damages between Defendants

March 2009: Legal Matters - Professional Indemnity, Issue 5
Contents include:

  • Enforcement of solicitors’ undertakings
  • Duty to advise lay client about pending change to the law
  • Costs - pre-action loss adjusters’ fees not recoverable as costs