If you have experienced poor service from a solicitor or received bad legal advice, you may have the right to seek compensation. Our dedicated and experienced team of specialist professional negligence solicitors have successfully recovered compensation for clients where solicitors have negligently:

• Under-settled an accident compensation claim
• Missed time limits and lost the right to continue with a legal action
• Failed to make proper enquiries when acting in the purchase of a property
• Failed to draft a Will correctly
• Failed to check documents properly when negotiating a settlement in proceedings

If your solicitor is guilty of professional misconduct it may be that the best way to seek justice is to pursue a complaint based on the poor service that you have received rather than pursuing a negligence claim through the courts. If a solicitor is found to have provided poor or inadequate professional service, the Legal Complaints Service has the power to order the solicitor to pay you compensation of up to £15,000.

Many people still think that one solicitor will not bring a claim against another negligent, or even dishonest, solicitor. Our specialist team will always give you the best possible advice to seek justice and/or compensation.

All negligence claims are subject to time limits and it is therefore important that you do not delay in making your claim as soon as you know that something has gone wrong. In most professional negligence claims you have 6 years to issue court proceedings.

Time limits can be extremely complicated and mistakes by solicitors about time limits often give rise to a large number of claims. As a general rule, the 6 year period starts running from the date that your professional advisor was negligent or the date you suffered loss. However, if you can show that you were not aware that your professional adviser had been negligent until after the date of negligence, you may be entitled to more time.

It is not always easy to calculate the time limits in professional negligence claims and it is therefore important that you obtain prompt legal advice as soon as you discover that you may have a negligence claim.

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