What Is Professional Negligence?

Professional negligence is a term that most people know yet few people can explain. In broad terms, claims regarding professional negligence are generally made when an individual feels they have been let down by a professional, and, as a result of this, the individual has suffered a loss. This loss can be financial or otherwise but it must have occurred as a consequence of poor service provided by a professional for the individual to have a claim. The type of professional that can be claimed against commonly includes solicitors, barristers, accountants, surveyors, financial advisors, project managers, planning consultants and architects, yet a professional negligence claim can be brought against negligent individuals in almost any profession. 

 

However, there is a reason why professional negligence cases do not appear to make the headlines as often as other areas of the law. Professional negligence is a specialist topic and not an area of general practice for solicitors, and because of this professional negligence cases appear with less regularity than, for example, widely publicised areas of the law such as accident claims. The specialist nature of professional negligence has the effect of reducing the number of solicitors who are sufficiently aware of the issues involved to enable them to undertake professional negligence work effectively. This can make the building of a professional negligence claim quite difficult for an individual if they hire a solicitor that does not absolutely understand all the potential aspects of a professional negligence claim.

 

At CompareTheSolicitor we have a number of solicitors that specialise in professional negligence and can find the right one for you. Contac t us with some details of your case and we shall point you to the solicitor that will best suit your requirements.