Butterworths professional negligence service

This two volume looseleaf service is a comprehensive practitioner's guide to professional negligence.

The service combines narrative guidance as well as all relevant source materials and case digests.

Part I of the first volume covers general principles, including the nature of professional obligation, liability for negligence, liability in contract and tort, contributory negligence, limitation, damages, fiduciary duties and concurrent liabilities.

This part also includes litigation tactics in the light of the new Civil Justice Reforms.

Part II covers the law relating to 11 individual professions.

The second volume includes detailed materials for each profession, including statutory materials, guidelines in relation to expert evidence, practice directions, model letters of instruction, professional guidelines, specimen pleadings, full text cases and case summaries, and tactics in prosecuting or defending actions.