Serle Court is recommended by the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for professional negligence work. Our coverage of specialist legal areas often enables us to provide valuable additional expertise relevant to particular professional negligence cases, such as cases raising issues to do with company, insolvency, property, trusts, probate, partnership, banking, insurance, financial services, regulatory and disciplinary matters and/or fraud.

Members of Serle Court are also often able to provide other forms of relevant expertise, such as experience in dealing with particular types of expert issues (such as accountancy, investment advice or fund management), or with quantum issues generally. Our clerks can assist in finding the most suitable barrister for each case.

Significant professional negligence cases in which members of Serle Court have been involved in recent years include the following:

Lemos v Coutts  (Cayman Islands – alleged negligence and wilful default by professional trustees)

Beary v Pall Mall Investments [2005] EWCA Civ 415 (causation and loss issues in claim against IFA)

Cave v Robinson, Jarvis & Rolf [2003] 1 AC 384 (limitation)

Pesskin v Mishcon de Reya [2003] All ER (D) 336 (negligence claim against solicitors arising out of corporate reconstruction)

Gribbon v Lutton [2002] QB 902 (stakeholder’s obligations)

Re Continental Assurance of London Plc [2001] BPIR 733 (negligence and wrongful trading claim against directors)

Bank Bruxelles Lambert v Eagle Star Insurance [1997] AC 191  (the SAAMCO case – quantum in relation to surveyors and other advisors)