Professional Negligence

Professional Negligence

When a professional is instructed you are entitled to expect them to deal with your case with appropriate care and skill. However, it is an unfortunate truth that, from time to time, professionals can make mistakes. This can have huge implications for their clients. Rix and Kay’s team of professional negligence solicitors are experienced in analysing the circumstances and implications of your case and advising you or your business on the options available to compensate for lack of care or mistakes.

As a team of specialists we are able to not only advise on the professional negligence claim itself but also to protect, advise and assist with legal remedies across a wide range of areas to rectify the position you or your business are left in as a result of this negligence. This could mean advising on contractual issues, to resolving property related matters.

For further information on the areas of dispute resolution we advise upon, please contact us and/or see related pages on this website. In considering a professional negligence claim against a professional advisor (which may include accountants, surveyors, engineers, or other firms of solicitors amongst many others) we carefully consider what duty of care was owed, whether that duty of care has been breached and whether the advice given adheres to common standards of practice in that field.

We undertake a costs/benefit analysis with you and identify the strengths and any weaknesses of your case. We work with you to consider your options and to negotiate a satisfactory settlement. We understand that legal costs can be daunting. We will provide you with a detailed estimate of costs at the outset so there are no surprises; keep you informed as to costs and work with you to control them.

In addition to court action, we make full use of mediation when appropriate as this is a cost and time effective method to achieve settlement and allows you to keep in control. We will discuss the most suitable steps at all times to assist you in dealing with what can be a distressing time.

“The dispute resolution team advises large SME businesses and professional service firms, particularly accountants, on a range of commercial litigation”.

“Louise Mackay and Katie McClean are key lawyers”

“From my dealings with the firm, as counsel instructed by them, I would describe them as friendly, helpful, relaxed, informal, sensible and practical to deal with. I suspect they are a very sound firm, when compared with some of the flashier but potentially less diligent and less attentive regional firms that you can find in the Surrey, Kent and Sussex corridor down from London”.

“As counsel I’ve really appreciated having a solicitor who I can work with and discuss things with and get real input from”.

Industry peers praise Rix & Kay in the latest edition of Legal 500