Professional negligence claims solicitor helpline
Claiming for negligent advice
If you have been the victim of poor or negligent advice received from your solicitor, accountant, architect, surveyor or other specialist, you may be able to claim compensation for professional negligence.
This site is owned and managed by Winston Solicitors LLP who are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. We are a firm of compensation lawyers who specialise in claims against professionals who wrongly advise their clients.
Unsure what to do or where to start?
There are a number of ways for you to contact us:
In order to claim - you must show:
1 - The professional owed you a duty of care
This is usually not difficult if you have engaged the professional to provide a service for you, because you will probably have a contract with the professional. All providers of a service under contract have a duty to provide the service with due skill and diligence – and where the time isn't specified – within a reasonable time.
2 - The professional has breached that duty of care
You have to prove that the standard of work provided by the professional is worse than that you should expect from a reasonable professional working in the circumstances of your case.
3 - The breach of duty of care has caused you loss
This is often the hardest part to prove. You have to prove that you are worse off than you would have been had the professional provided the service with due skill and diligence. Sometimes, especially with negligent advisers, their negligence has not caused actual loss, so much as disappointment, in that you are simply worse off than you thought you were. Such disappointment does not on its own give you a claim.
* Please note* We cannot help with general complaints about poor service or poor professional attitudes or procedures. We deal with financial loss claims and in order to pursue such a claim you must be able to demonstrate an actual loss has been or is likely to be sustained.
We have a team of dedicated professional negligence lawyers who can advise you on your prospects of taking legal action against the party or parties who provided the bad advice.
We can deal with cases involving:
- Clinical errors, bad advice or mishaps leading to medical negligence compensation
- Failed litigation and complaints against solicitors or barristers for poor legal advice
- Property transaction issues and Conveyancer negligence
- Complaints against misselling of financial products such as endowments, bonds, pensions etc.
- Claims and complaints against architects.
- Compensation for negligent house surveys or valuation reports from surveyors / valuers.
Our professional negligence team is headed by partner Richard Lindley who is a solicitor on the Negligence Panel Referral Scheme operated by the Law Society.
If we are able to take your case further, we will provide you with a completely free legal opinion on the merits of your case. We will advise you in detail about how your claim may proceed.
If we feel that your case has merit, we will consider dealing with the matter no win no fee. However this arrangement is not available for matters involving builders or construction firms.
Please be aware that our No win No fee services does NOT include payment of disbursements which may be incurred in order to establish negligence.
Professional negligence case studies
- Poor car accident claim solicitor service
- Conveyancing solicitor negligent for not checking title documents correctly
- Accountant negligent for failing in bookkeeping duties
- Surveyor negligence for failing to identify subsidence
- Commercial solicitors poor service but not negligent
For additional information on suing a professional for negligent advice - the following websites may be useful:
- Professional negligence Protocol issued by the DCS
- Which? Consumers' Association
- Institute of Trading Standards
- NACAB (Citizens Advice Bureaux)
- NCC (National Consumer Council)
- The Department of Trade & Industry (DTI)
- Consumer Complaints site
- Law Commission new website
- How to complain
- Rough Justice
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