Solicitors' Negligence and Liability, 2nd edition

• Commissioners of Customs & Excise v Barclays Bank (extent of duties of care)
• Sempra Metals, and Golden Strait v Nippon Yusen Kaisha (assessment of damages)
• Haward v Fawcetts, and Law Society v Sephton (limitation)
• Hilton v Barker Booth & Eastwood (conflicts of interest)

• Barlow Clowes (the test for dishonesty)

• SEB Trygg v Manches (warranty of authority)

• The impact of the Council of Mortgage Lenders' Handbook on lenders' claims
• The sub-prime lending crisis
• The effect of the new Solicitors' Code of Conduct (2007)
• With specialist chapters on lenders' claims, conveyancing, and wills and litigation
• And brand new chapters on breach of warranty of authority and breach of undertaking, and breach of confidence.

Written by two experienced barristers, the book covers the whole scheme of solicitor negligence. Impressively, the text first considers the essential principles. It later considers specific issues of negligence like conveyancing. This is an excellent approach because it allows the reader to understand the basic principles but then consider the finer points of negligence in a particular field.

Solicitors' Negligence and Liability is superbly written and provides both a clear and authoritative account of this area of law. The principles are well explained and include (where appropriate) detailed footnotes allowing the reader to undertake further research. The authors also wonderfully combine commentary with extracts from the key cases. This allows teh reader to understand the principles in context. Solicitors' Negligence and Liability also goes beyond simple professional negligence claims by considering issues like conflicts of interest and duties when giving non-legal advice.

For anyone practising in this area of law, they should seriously consider buying this book. It provides an extremely accessible and clear account of the law, the principles and their application meaning it is an excellent reference point for these claims. It is also extremely well written and its price means it provides excellent value for money.