Professional negligence: no win no fee

Professional Negligence claims against solicitors and other professional are now more accessible and common within the past decade owing to the conditional fee agreements "no win no fee""no win no fee" conditional fee agreements.

A common form of professional negligence may arise where a conveyancing solicitor who has made a mistake the sale or purchase of your home. Common scenarios might be: If you have suffered loss as a result of a professional's mistake then you may be able to sue for the solicitor for the value of that loss.
If you have suffered loss as a result of a professional's mistake then you may be able to recover the value of that loss.

Meade-King, solicitors in Bristol, provides specialist advice on professional negligence. Our solicitors assess your professional negligence claim before entering into a "no win no fee" agreement. Our solicitors provide a free half hour initial appraisal of a professional negligence case. We have succeeded in professional negligence claims against solicitors, conveyancing professionals, accountants and surveyors. Our solicitors deal with a majority of professional negligence cases by conditional fee agreements "no win, no fee". Our clients are based not only in Bristol but come from all over the country and abroad.

What is professional negligence?

Professional negligence claims may not arise from every mistake made by a professional (i.e. solicitor, accountant, architect) to allow the claimant to sue for compensation for negligence. Broadly, if the The broad test to be applied is whether the mistake mistake is one which no reasonably competent professional should have made that in turn causes financial loss you might be able to sue for compensation.

Professional negligence: The tests

In broad terms, the procedure for professional negligence will be similar for all professionals, but using a claim against a conveyancing solicitor as an example, for a claimant to sue for compensation in inprofessional negligence to succeed, he or she has to establish:

1. existence of a duty of care on the part of the solicitor (other professional). ( That does not necessarily mean that the claimant need not beis a client of the solicitor (other professional). There must however the professional relationship must bebe suffiently close relationship between the two)

2. breach of duty by the conveyancing solicitor (other professional)

3. existence of a loss

4. the breach of duty by the conveyancing professionalsolicitor (other professional) has caused the loss

Specialist advice on professional negligence

"No win no fee" arrangements are usually entered into after one of our solicitors has provided essential experienced guidance on the:

• existence of a duty of care
• scope of that duty
• quality of the advice that is given by the solicitor (other professional)
• issue of causation
• duty to mitigate
• measure of compensation

An experienced insurer or panel solicitor will normally defend a professional negligence claim (whether the claim is against a conveyancing solicitor, an accountant or a construction professional). It is not advisable to engage a high street solicitor to prosecute a claim. Our Bristol based solicitors provide essential high quality and effective representation in professional negligence claims. Meade-King solicitors have acted recently in securing damages for professional negligence of:

· £300k against architects
· £85k against solicitors
· £60k against architects
· £110k against accountants
· £40k against surveyors conveyancing solicitors. All these cases were pursued under conditional fee agreements "no win no fee""no win no fee" conditional fee agreements.

At Meade-King solicitors we will:

· identify the real issues at an early stage

· anticipate the sort of defence which is likely to be argued

· assess the prospects of success of the professional negligence claim

· tell you what is involved in pursuing your claim for professional negligence

· where appropriate, agree a process to encourage settlement

· in the great majority of cases, share the risk involved by operating under conditional fee arrangements "no win no fee".

Professional Negligence Experience

Adam Chivers heads the professional negligence work of Meade-King, solicitors of Bristol. Where applicable, he promotes funding his cases under conditional fee agreements "no win no fee"conditional fee agreements.

He is a qualified arbitrator and a member of the regional committee of the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association.

He has been recommended in the independent Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession as "a bright and tenacious operator … commended for bringing a commercially realistic approach to litigation"

Meade King Solicitors
11-12 Queen Square
Bristol, BS1 4NT

T: 0117 926 4121

Professional negligence solicitors in Bristol promoting "no win no fee" agreements