Lovells

The nature of these cases is such that some of the names must be kept confidential.  Our recent work includes:

• advising a major firm of accountants and their insurers on a claim threatened both in England and Germany 
  

• defending a major international law firm in proceedings in Paris
  

• Walker v Stones: on trustee exoneration clauses, vicarious liability and reflective loss of shareholders
  

• defending a major merchant bank in negligence claims following acquisition at alleged overvalue
  

• Matrix Churchill v Theodore Goddard: on solicitors’ duties where tax counsel instructed
  

• defending a major New York law firm in proceedings in the Bahamas
  

• defending Weil, Gotshal and Manges in proceedings brought by subsidiaries of the Royal Bank of Scotland
  

• acting for Willis in a Commercial Court claim about an explosion at an armaments facility in the US
  

• Trusted v Clifford Chance: successful defence of claim by non-client that duty of care owed to him by clients’ solicitors, based on the White v Jones disappointed will beneficiary case
  

• HF Pension Scheme Trustees v Ellison & others: on application of latent damage provisions where erroneous legal advice was given
  

• Accident Assistance v Hammonds Suddard Edge: successful defence of a claim concerning the Consumer Credit Act
  

• acting for a major venture capital organisation in a claim against accountants for inaccurate cashflow forecasts for target investment vehicle
  

• BRDC v Hextall Erskine: claim over advice about authority of directors, now a leading case on causation and recoverability of costs of previous action
  

• Banque Bruxelles Lambert SA v Eagle Star Insurance Limited and others: on damages for negligence; a subrogated claim against valuers on behalf of mortgage indemnity insurers
  

• BCCI SA and others v Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Whinney: on duty of care, the largest ever audit negligence case