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Professional Negligence

To Advise or Not to Advise – An Abundance of Caution? What Limitations Can Be Imposed and What are the Parameters of a Family Law Solicitor’s Duty?

To Advise or Not to Advise – An Abundance of Caution? What Limitations Can Be Imposed and What are the Parameters of a Family Law Solicitor’s Duty?

‘I did not have the money, and she did not have the time’ said Joanne Lewis, during her evidence before HHJ Coe KC at a final hearing in November 2022 (with judgment handed down on 31 March 2023) to determine Mrs Lewis’ professional negligence claim against her matrimonial solicitors, Cunningtons

Joanne Lewis v Cunningtons Solicitors [2023] EWHC 822 (KB)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2023/822.html HHJ Coe KC. Successful negligence claim in relation to pensions advice on divorce. The Claimant, after receiving some advice from the Defendants, but in the absence of full disclosure, entered into direct discussions with her husband and then instructed