The Independent - London, December 18th, 1998
THERE WAS no general rule on the question of a lawyer's immunity from liability for negligence in advising a client to settle a case.
The Court of Appeal all-owed three of four appeals which had been listed and heard together, but dismissed the fourth.
The following questions of law had arisen on the appeals: the extent and circumstances in which a lawyer's immunity from suit in relation to the allegedly negligent conduct of a case in court protected him against claims for allegedly negligent acts and omissions which had taken place out of court; whether a lawyer, if not otherwise immune fro...
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