Professional Negligence - Shining a Light on Scope of Duty

Introduction

This virtual classroom session is intended to clarify the law relating to the scope of a lawyer’s duty of care to their clients.

It is particularly aimed at lawyers seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the contractual and common law principles that underpin the general duty to a client, and what may fall within it.

In a situation where a client alleges that some task, advice, or action ought to have been taken but was not: in what circumstances would a court determine that this was negligent conduct? Very often, a client who has suffered some loss will turn to their lawyer and say: ‘Why didn’t you warn me about this?’

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• Scope of duty: general principles
• Can the scope be limited?
• What does ‘reasonably incidental’ mean?
• When does the retainer arise?
• Common law duty of care
• Assumption of responsibility
• ‘Scope of duty’ vs ‘breach of duty’
• Things to bear in mind

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.