We have a proven track record in successfully recovering compensation from a whole range of professionals, including accountants, architects, engineers, insurance brokers, solicitors, stock brokers and surveyors. We have particular experience of claims for professional negligence relating to property, including conveyancing, surveys, and valuation.

We understand that the decision to make a claim against your professional advisor is never easy, particularly as you may often have built up a longstanding relationship with that advisor. Our experience of claims for professional negligence will ensure that we get to the real issues quickly in the claim and provide you with the clearest possible advice on your complaint as soon as possible.

We will always try to recover your compensation as quickly as we can and because of our reputation, many of our cases settle at an early stage at mediation without the need to go to court. We will provide an early analysis of the costs benefits to you of pursuing your claim and in appropriate circumstances will consider acting on a “no-win no-fee” (CFA) basis.

If you think that you may have a claim you should not delay in seeking legal advice, particularly if the work you are complaining about was carried out by your advisor some time ago, as there are time limits by when you must bring your claim. If you would like us to consider your claim, without any obligation, please click here and complete our online enquiry form and we shall ensure that we contact you as soon as possible.

Examples of some how we have been able to help our clients are set out below:

Architects & Engineers

• Successfully prosecuted a claim in the High Court against a firm of engineers for failing to advise in relation to retaining walls causing subsidence to a residential property.
• Defended a claim brought by engineers for their unpaid fees and prosecuted a counterclaim against them for professional negligence relating to development of large residential site. Matter settled in our client’s favour at mediation.
• Advised firm of accountants in a claim against their architects for negligent advice in relation to construction costs for a design and build project for their new offices.

Accountants

• Judgement obtained in the High Court against firm of accountants for c£100k for negligent tax advice leading to an individual’s bankruptcy. Not only did we recover damages, but his bankruptcy was annulled.
• Successful claim in the High Court against a large regional firm of accountants for negligent tax advice given to a business. Matter settled out of court.
• Successfully pursued firm of accountants in the High Court on behalf of a number of individuals for negligent tax advice on the sale of their company.

Surveyors

• Claim for £300k by business against multi-national firm of surveyors for their negligent handling of the exercise of a break clause in a commercial lease. The claim was settled in our client’s favour at mediation.
• Successfully pursued national firm of surveyors for damages for £150k for their negligent survey of our client’s residential property, including a failure to advise on structural defects and budget remedial costs. Claim settled at mediation.

Current cases include:

• Claim against Building Surveyors for negligent advice on a full structural survey of a 17th century listed building, more particularly to advise on beetle infestation and dry rot.
• Claim against surveyors for providing a negligent valuation, including a wholly inadequate estimate for re build costs. When the property was destroyed after a fire, there was a substantial shortfall (£400k) under the insurance policy, claimed against the surveyor.

Solicitors

• Claim for £0.6m in the High Court against several firms of solicitors for negligent advice and allowing our client’s claim to be struck out by the Court. We successfully recovered substantial damages at mediation.
• Claim for £150k in the High Court for negligent conduct of litigation in relation to divorce and ancillary relief. Claim settled out of Court in client’s favour.
• Claim in the High Court for £100k against solicitors for allowing a claim for medical negligence to become out of time so the client could not claim his compensation. The claim settled out of Court in client’s favour.
• Claim in the High Court for negligent conveyancing for failing to secure appropriate rights of way and drainage when our clients purchased their house. Matter settled out of Court in client’s favour.
• Claim against national firm of solicitors for negligently permitting our client’s sister to be the sole appointed Administratrix to their father’s estate so that she wrongfully claimed all of the compensation due to their father for a claim for industrial disease. Claim settled out of Court in client’s favour.
• Successfully appealed against a charging order and order for sale made against our client’s home. A concurrent claim for professional negligence was brought against his former legal advisors who had wrongly permitted those orders to be obtained in the first place. They then paid off the debt for the client.

Current cases include:

• Acting in a claim for potentially £15m against national firm of solicitors relating to negligent property advice and conduct of subsequent litigation.
• Instructed against national firm of solicitors for failing to advise on a break clause in a commercial lease resulting in the tenant client being compelled to pay compensation to their landlord.
• Acting in a claim against firm of residential conveyancers for failing to accurately record the changes made to a sale contract and failure to advise in relation to those changes and stamp duty liability.
• Instructed by insurance company in a claim against solicitors for failing to recover insurance policy premium in a claim brought by their insured for clinical negligence.
• Claim by group of individuals for solicitor’s negligence in drafting of an option to buy back land in a sale agreement.
• Instructed to bring a claim against solicitors acting as executors under a Will and their negligent administration of the deceased’s estate.