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28 April 2022

Behind The Façade Series: A Look At Key Professional Negligence Issues (Video)

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Gatehouse Chambers

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Gatehouse Chambers (formerly Hardwicke) is a leading commercial chambers which specialises in arbitration and all forms of ADR, commercial dispute resolution, construction, insolvency, restructuring and company, insurance, professional liability and property disputes. It also has niche specialisms in clinical negligence and personal injury as well as private client work.
They address questions such as to whom those duties are owed, the difficulties in establishing causation and factors to consider where there are multiple possible defendants.
United Kingdom Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration

With a particular emphasis on the current law relating to professional negligence claims following Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2021] UKSC 20, Brie Stevens-Hoare QCKatie Lee and Jack Dillon discuss the scope of duty owed by potential professional defendants. They address questions such as to whom those duties are owed, the difficulties in establishing causation and factors to consider where there are multiple possible defendants. These issues are considered in the context of claims against:

  • Solicitors
  • Surveyors
  • Architects0428
  • Engineers

Watch a recording of the webinar below.

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