Dispute Resolution
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Our leading professional services team provide bespoke advice against negligence claims, regulatory proceedings as well as offering risk management and support.
Our leading professional services team specialises in professional liability matters and defends claims of alleged professional negligence against a wide variety of professionals including lawyers, accountants, architects, surveyors, company directors, finance and insurance brokers and healthcare professionals.
We support professional services firms and networks of all sizes. Our focus on each of the major professions enables us to understand the commercial, reputational and regulatory pressures each client faces, and to provide targeted risk management and other advice.
Our team has extensive experience of handling regulatory, disciplinary and investigatory proceedings on behalf of all professions. Our lawyers are adept at guiding clients through the particular challenges presented by parallel civil and disciplinary proceedings, including those which involve multiple jurisdictions.
Claims for breach of copyright by companies where a Web developer has used copyrighted images when designing a website without paying the appropriate licence fee
Claims for repayment of fees where the work done by the Insured has proved to be of a dissatisfactory quality
Advising fostering and adoption charities and residents associations, including in relation to service charge and injury claims.
Claims for infringement of copyright and designs rights where it was alleged that the website designed by the Insured was similar to that of the claimant
Failure by an IT systems installation expert to install a new IT system for a firm of solicitors that was 'fit for purpose'
Failure by an IT programmer to provide a software programme which provided a contact management system for their client
Claims for negligence where the Insured had failed to correctly code the shopping cart on a website used for the sale of the claimants' product, resulting in items being purchased for a quarter of the price
Advising on claims arising out of the supply of individuals to professional firms and companies, and representing a recruitment industry lobbying group
Failure by an IT website developer to create a bespoke website in accordance with the specifications requested by the client
Claims for breach of copyright by companies where a Web developer has used copyrighted images when designing a website without paying the appropriate licence fee
Claims for repayment of fees where the work done by the Insured has proved to be of a dissatisfactory quality
Advising fostering and adoption charities and residents associations, including in relation to service charge and injury claims.
Claims for infringement of copyright and designs rights where it was alleged that the website designed by the Insured was similar to that of the claimant
Failure by an IT systems installation expert to install a new IT system for a firm of solicitors that was 'fit for purpose'
Failure by an IT programmer to provide a software programme which provided a contact management system for their client
Claims for negligence where the Insured had failed to correctly code the shopping cart on a website used for the sale of the claimants' product, resulting in items being purchased for a quarter of the price
Advising on claims arising out of the supply of individuals to professional firms and companies, and representing a recruitment industry lobbying group
Failure by an IT website developer to create a bespoke website in accordance with the specifications requested by the client
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