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Solicitor

07 February 2014
Issue: 7593 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Hellard and another v Irwin Mitchell [2013] EWHC 3008 (Ch), [2014] All ER (D) 206 (Jan)

It was well established that a solicitor who reasonably relied on counsel’s advice in giving his own was not negligent if the counsel instructed was competent and experienced in the field, and properly instructed. Whilst solicitors could not abdicate responsibility and had to exercise their own judgment, in a specialist area the solicitor was entitled to follow counsel’s view unless it was were obviously and glaringly wrong. 

 

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