Professional Negligence Solicitors
We are a specialist professional negligence firm providing expert legal support to individuals
or companies who have been wronged by a professional.
Professional Negligence Claim
When you rely on a professional, the last thing you expect is to become a victim of negligent advice or representation. We understand the serious impact that professional negligence can have on both individuals and businesses, which is why we are here to support you with your professional negligence claim.
Our specialist professional negligence team assists with complex and high-value claims against professionals. Unlike larger commercial firms, we offer a highly personalized service, ensuring you receive full support throughout the claims process.
Our commitment to delivering exceptional professional negligence services has earned us recognition from Legal 500 as one of the leading firms in this area of law.
Claiming For professional negligence with Freeman Harris
To assess a claim for professional negligence, the primary focus is to establish whether a professional breached their duty of care, and you have suffered a loss as a result. The loss you have incurred will form the basis of your professional negligence claim.
How Freeman Harris Solicitors help with professional negligence?
Professional negligence is a specialised area of law; therefore, it is important to use the services of a law firm with experience of dealing with negligence claims against professionals. At Freeman Harris, we have considerable experience in assessing and working on such matters. We take a staged approach in identifying the negligence, assessing losses, and making a claim.
If you have a dispute with a professional service provider because of their negligence, contact us, so we can investigate the matter. We offer an initial review and meeting where we will assess your chances of success based on our meetings and the evidence you provide.
We offer several fee structures, and where appropriate, we will consider no win-no fee arrangements after the initial risk assessment.
Disputes Team
Avi Gordon
Senior SolicitorAvi has over a decade’s experience dealing with all aspects of professional negligence disputes, with particular focus on preparing complex multi-million pound claims against solicitors and barristers.Rajas Chitnis
SolicitorRajas has been assisting Avi with complex professional negligence claims for a number of years, and has developed a great skillset in dealing with such matters. Rajas would be your initial contact for certain claims.Isabel Fisher
Trainee SolicitorIsabel assists the professional neglgience team with their claims assisting in research and progressing the claims.
Professional Negligence Fees
Professional Negligence Claims FAQs
- What is professional negligence?
In simple terms, professional negligence is when a professional you have instructed to work with fails to perform their duties to the required standards or breaches a duty of care. The professional’s negligence would result in you suffering a loss.
A professional could be a solicitor, an accountant, an investment manager or any other professional who had been instructed to act for you on a formal basis.
If you think the professional you worked with was negligent in providing their service, and may have failed you, you can contact us to discuss your claim.
- Which professionals can you make a claim against?
Sometimes professionals can make mistakes. Such mistakes can cause problems for their clients, causing financial loss amongst other issues.
When such a dispute arises, it is known as ‘professional negligence’.
If you have been affected by mistakes made by a professional, our highly experienced professional negligence team can assist you. We have assisted with claims against professionals such as:
- architects;
- accountants;
- barristers;
- estate agents;
- solicitors;
- surveyors; and
- insurance brokers.
When you instruct a professional, they will provide you with a written agreement. This would be in compliance with the law as well as any professional body rules and regulations, i.e. the contract. As a result, the dispute between the parties would be judged based on this contract.
Professionals owe a duty of care to their clients, which is why you can pursue a claim for breach of contract and negligence.
- What previous cases have you worked on?
The head of Freeman Harris’s Professional Negligence Department, Avi Gordon, has:
- Acted in a multi-million-pound professional negligence claim against a private client solicitor arising out of the negligent drafting of a will.
- Acted in a multi-million-pound professional negligence claim against a City law firm arising from their failure to issue a Claim Form prior to the limitation period expiring resulting in the clients losing their very valuable claim against a large bank.
- Obtained judgment in the client’s favour following a complex preliminary issue trial against the client’s previous solicitor in the Senior Courts Costs Office in respect of the unlawful termination of a Conditional Fee Agreement (see Karis Developments Ltd v EMW Law LLP [2020] 1 WLUK 19).
- Acted in a multi-million professional negligence claim against a Silver Circle law firm arising out of negligent advice in relation to an After the Event insurance policy.
- Acted for Karis Developments Limited in its £18 million negligence claim against Howard Kennedy LLP arising out of their drafting of a large-scale development agreement with a local authority.
- Acted in a multi-million-pound claim against a law firm arising from their numerous failures (including but not limited to costs budgeting and disclosure) which ultimately resulted in the client’s substantial claim against a large bank being struck out.
- Acted in a large professional negligence claim against a well-known family law practice in respect of their negligent failure to enforce a multi-million-pound maintenance order against the client’s ex-husband by issuing proceedings under the wrong procedure resulting in those proceedings subsequently being struck out with the client being ordered to pay a six-figure sum in adverse costs and no recovery under the maintenance order.
- Acted in a professional negligence claim against a law firm arising out of their negligent failure to name the correct party on a Claim Form.
- What if I have received bad service from a professional?
If you have received a poor service from a professional, it is worth making a claim if you have incurred a loss. These losses need to be assessed and valued, so your claim can be calculated.
The purpose of a professional negligence claim is to assess the financial value of the loss you have suffered from, and to put you in the position that you would have been in if the professional wasn’t negligent in providing their service.
An example of this would be a Financial Advisor giving his client factually incorrect information, which resulted in the client losing a large amount of money.
- Does a professional negligence matter need to go to court?
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