Professional negligence: "no win no fee"

Professional Negligence Solicitors

Meade-King, solicitors in Bristol, provides specialist advice on professional negligence. Our solicitors assess your professional negligence claim before entering into a "no win no fee" agreement (conditional fee agreement). Our solicitors provide a free half hour initial appraisal of a professional negligence case. We have succeeded in professional negligence claims against solicitors, accountants and surveyors. Our solicitors deal with the great majority of our professional negligence cases by conditional fee agreements "no win, no fee". Our clients come from all over the country and abroad.

What is professional negligence?

Professional negligence claims may not arise from every mistake made by a professional (e.g. solicitor, accountant, architect). The test to be applied is whether the mistake is one which no reasonably competent professional should have made and whether it has caused the client any financial disadvantage.

Professional negligence: The tests

In broad terms, to succeed against a solicitor for example, a claimant in professional negligence has to establish the existence of a duty of care on the part of the solicitor (other professional). That does not necessarily mean that the claimant is a client of the solicitor (other professional). There must however be a close relationship between the two and a breach of duty by the solicitor (other professional) which has caused the loss (known as causation)

Specialist advice on professional negligence

No win no fee arrangements are usually entered into after one of our solicitors has provided essential experienced guidance on the:

• existence of a duty of care

• scope of that duty

• quality of the advice that is given by the solicitor (other professional)

• issue of causation

• duty to mitigate, and;

• measure of compensation

A professional negligence claim (whether the claim is against a solicitor, an accountant or a construction professional) will generally be contested by an experienced insurer or panel solicitor. It is not advisable to engage a high street solicitor to prosecute a claim. Our Bristol based solicitors provide essential high quality and effective representation in professional negligence claims.

At Meade-King solicitors we will: