Professional Negligence & Regulation/Discipline
Maitland Chambers has extensive experience in advising, litigating and negotiating settlements in professional negligence claims in a wide range of fields.
Chambers can offer expertise at all levels, from teams of counsel led by one or more senior silks for heavy commercial disputes worth hundreds of millions of pounds, to juniors able to take claims involving individuals or SMEs to trial and/or ADR.
Much of Chambers’ professional negligence work falls in the areas of Banking and Financial Services, Company, Partnership & LLPs (claims against bankers, accountants, auditors, financial advisers); Real Estate (valuers, surveyors and project monitors, estate agents); legal services (solicitors; barristers); and property damage (engineers, architects, quantity surveyors). Members have also acted in cases concerning such diverse professional fields as art valuation, IT consultancy and pension valuation. Members act for both claimants and defendants.
One of Maitland’s great strengths is the ability to offer expertise across specialisms. Our members are comfortable dealing with professional negligence cases which cross-over into civil fraud, which raise PI insurance and coverage issues, which give rise to allegations of breaches of directors’ duties or to questions of partnership or LLP law, and which involve sales / securitisations of loan books by mortgage lenders.
A number of members of Chambers have experience of acting before regulatory and disciplinary tribunals.
Several members contribute to leading practitioner texts in the field, such as Simpson, Professional Negligence and Liability; Flenley & Leech, The Law of Solicitors’ Liabilities; and Tomlinson & Grant, Lender Claims.
A number of Maitland’s barristers are members of the Professional Negligence Bar Association; Thomas Grant KC is the PNBA’s Vice-Chair for 2021.
Expertise
Banking, financial services, company and partnership
Real property and property damage
Legal services
Insurance, civil fraud, securitisation