Colman Coyle’s professional negligence lawyers offer specialist advice for making claims against professionals when they fall short

Whether in business or in private life, everyone has cause from time to time to rely upon others to provide them with professional advice. This may be as common place as seeking the advice of your GP when you are unwell through to seeking advice from lawyers or accountants in complex business and financial transactions. The common feature of all these situations is that, in each case the client relies upon the advice of some one professing to have the appropriate expertise and qualification to assist and is entitled to expect them to provide the advice to an acceptable standard.

Unfortunately, from time to time even the best professionals may fall short of what can reasonably be expected of them and this can have serious consequences for the person who relied upon them. A GP may fail to diagnose medical symptoms correctly leading to serious medical problems, an architect may fail to design a building competently leading to major defects and delay or a lawyer may fail to pursue a client’s claim properly resulting in the client losing their rights.

As a client, you may therefore ask yourself was I given negligent professional advice ?