Posted by Nicola Radcliffe, Senior Associate
Professional Negligence Claims in 2014

As the year draws to a close Nicola Cutler looks back on the year’s key cases in Professional Negligence.
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As the year draws to a close Nicola Cutler looks back on the year’s key cases in Professional Negligence.
Often clients are confused about their professional negligence claim. Hopefully this blog will shed some light on the 3 most common areas of confusion.
A London casino successfully claimed losses from a bank who provided a negligent reference for a new customer. When the customer disappeared without a trace the casino turned to the bank to recover its losses.
As more barristers act for clients directly the number of barrister negligence claims are on the up.
In the interesting case of Sahib Foods Ltd-v-Paskin Kyriakides Sands (“PKS”) the Court confirmed that architects duty was owed to guard against the possible negligent misuse of cooking equipment at their client’s premises.
Generalist accountants are found not to be negligent for failing to give advice to the claimant about his domiciliary status or refer him to a specialist adviser.
A firm of solicitors successfully defended a negligence claim by establishing that their client’s representative had apparent authority to instruct.
Professional negligence claims are predicted to be on the rise following Andrew Mitchell’s ‘Plebgate’ claim which served as a stark warning for all solicitors.