Professional Negligence Claims
Solicitors, Barristers, Doctors, Dentists, Surveyors, Accountants and other Professionals can and do make mistakes.
Where those mistakes arise out of the failure to exercise reasonable skill and care compensation may be payable.
Professionals retain lawyers experienced in such claims and so should you; claims against professionals are complex and you need the best advice to ensure that you have the best opportunity of obtaining compensation.
We deal with claims of all sizes, both large and small and have an established record in recovering substantial damages.
For Medical/Clinical Negligence claims we have a Legal Services Commission Quality Mark for the Public Funding of claims against medical professionals.
We also undertake claims funded by Legal Expense Insurance or under Conditional Fee Agreements (commonly known as a CFA or "no win, no fee" Agreement).
We have country wide contacts with eminent experts and barristers to ensure that both the chances of your claim succeeding, and the award itself is maximised.
At The Roland Partnership we have a team of Professional Negligence Solicitors who specialise in Negligence Law.
It is important that you choose the right Solicitor for your case; contact us now.
Recent Awards/Cases
£2.1 million for Cerebral Palsy arising out of failure to deliver a baby promptly. Alleged failure to recognise various causes for concern for the condition of the baby during delivery and allowing the delivery to go on for too long.
£130,000 awarded against a firm of solicitors and a barrister for providing inadequate advice at Court resulting in the Claimant settling his claim for too low a figure.
The Claimant had suffered a brain injury in a car accident in 1995 but liability to pay him any compensation was disputed and the case was listed for trial in November 1997.
At the trial the then Defendant offered the Claimant £70,000 which he reluctantly accepted. However in advising the Claimant his then lawyers failed to take into account the real possibility that he would be incapable of future employment.
In December 2005 the High Court decided that the potential value of the claim had been substantially higher, that that should have communicated to the Claimant and that if it had been he would not have accepted the £70,000 offer.
The Court awarded the Claimant £130,000 damages.
This case is reported at:
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2005/2714.html.
£9,500 awarded against a firm of solicitors for the negligent conduct of the Claimant's claim for injuries resulting from a road traffic accident in suing the wrong Defendant and failing to properly investigate the Claimant's post-accident employment prospects and consequent value of his claim.
