Commercial update: negligent professional advice - a once-only breach
26th January 2016
Continuing breach is an area of law that has suffered from a level of uncertainty. In the context of professional risk, it is often important to limitation arguments, in order to determine when a breach of duty has occurred. Christopher Edwards (Call 2008) analyses the most recent contribution of the Court of Appeal, in Capita (Banstead 2011) Ltd v. RFIB Group Ltd [2015] EWCA Civ 310.
Christopher is a Commercial Law barrister with a particular specialism in financial mis-selling and professional liability. View his profile here.
3PB’s Business and Commercial Group are specialist commercial barristers who provide advice and legal representation on all aspects of business and commercial law. The Group advise on a broad range of issues, including contract and banking disputes, professional negligence, insolvency and international arbitration.
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