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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
5 September 2025
Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
The headlines this week around former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner are a reminder of the importance of taking the right advice from appropriate professionals and the potential consequences when such advice is called into question.
8 May 2025
Communications series part 5: Professional negligence & communicating in a digital age
In today’s fast-paced world, professional communications increasingly happen over WhatsApp, iMessage, and similar instant messaging apps. While these platforms offer speed and convenience, they also create a risk of information, which would normally be retained on a client file, being lost.
In professional negligence claims, contemporaneous records are often central to a successful defence. It is not unusual for claims to be brought years after work was carried out, and without a complete file of documents, it can be difficult to remember, or evidence, what happened.
28 April 2025
High Court Rejects Split Trial in Superyacht Negligence Case
In a significant ruling for professional negligence litigators, earlier this year the High Court refused an application for a split trial in Tatiana Soroka v Payne Hicks Beach, a professional negligence claim arising from one of the UK’s most high-profile divorce settlements.
21 November 2024
Privilege series part 2: Implied waiver in claims against solicitors
When solicitors are sued in their professional capacity, an important question arises as to whether documentation relevant to the claim remains subject to legal professional privilege.
7 October 2024
How to bring a professional negligence claim
Jemma Brimblecombe looks at the decision matrix clients must consider if they are minded to bring a professional negligence claim. Sometimes, of course, it is a new adviser who spots past errors and needs to guide a client on the path to take.