If you have suffered loss or damage as a result of poor professional advice or mismanagement of your affairs, you may be entitled to compensation.
Our experienced Professional Negligence Team is headed by an Accredited Specialist in Commercial Litigation and are on hand to help you resolve your matter promptly whether it has arisen in Newcastle, Sydney or elsewhere in NSW.
Professional negligence occurs where a professional (for example, an accountant, a financial adviser, a lawyer or an architect) has failed to provide services to the required standard of care, causing loss or damage to the person or entity they provided their services to.
Professionals such as Solicitors, Accountants, Financial Planners, Engineers and Valuers owe their clients a legal duty of care.
Where a professional advisor fails to exercise reasonable care and skill when providing you with advice or managing your affairs you may have a right to compensation if that failure caused you to suffer a foreseeable financial loss.
If your professional advisor has breached their duty of care you are entitled to recover compensation in the amount that will put you back in your original financial position.
We can assist with claims relating to:
Our team are amongst the most experienced Professional Negligence Lawyers Newcastle has to offer. We service clients throughout the greater Hunter region as well as Sydney and right across NSW.
While a professional’s liability in negligence will depend upon the specific circumstances of each case, generally speaking a professional will be negligent where there is a risk of harm to their client and: –
However, a professional advisor will not be negligent where, in providing their services, they acted in a manner that, at the time the service was provided, was widely accepted in Australia by peer professional opinion as competent professional practice.
There are a broad range of damages that may be claimed where an advisor has been negligent. Damages are awarded on a case-by-case basis, and a plaintiff will usually be entitled to damages which are sufficient to compensate the plaintiff to place them, as far as possible, in the position they would have been in had their advisor not been negligent.
Our Professional Negligence Team have extensive experience advising clients and resolving professional negligence claims swiftly.
Our team includes 3 Accredited Specialists in Commercial Litigation. We have more Accredited Specialists in Commercial Litigation than 99% of firms in NSW.
We invest time to fully assess the strengths and weaknesses of your legal position to properly advise and assist you to identify real and favourable outcomes and develop a strategy for achieving those outcomes without the need for Court proceedings, where possible.
In most cases we are able to negotiate a favourable settlement of your claim with the responsible professional’s insurer.
People who have suffered loss as a result of professional negligence can often not afford legal costs of pursuing a claim for compensation. In many cases, we assist by acting on a No Win No Fee basis.
Call us to find out if you are eligible for our No Win No Fee guarantee.
