Business and Professional Risks

The Deans Court Professional and Business team specialises in three fields:

• insurance
• contractual and commercial claims
• professional negligence disputes

In the insurance field, we act for clients whose concerns arise out of the meaning, interpretation, application and binding effect of indemnity and non-indemnity policies across the whole spectrum of risks, from life, personal injury and accident cover, through to business interruption, fire damage, professional indemnity, buildings and contents, product liability and property damage.

In the contractual and commercial disputes sphere, our expertise includes:

• Agreements for the sale and supply of goods and the provision of services
• Hire purchase and consumer credit
• Guarantees and indemnity obligations
• Transport carriage of goods
• Agency relations including those between commercial agent and principal
• Auction contracts
• Building and engineering contracts, arbitrations and proceedings
• Copyright, passing off, designs (registered and unregistered) and trade marks
• Anti competitive agreements and cartels
• Insolvency with a particular emphasis on transaction avoidance
• Civil fraud and tracing of assets
• Commercial arbitrations

We have considerable experience in the defence and prosecution of claims against the modern professional advisor, including lawyers, surveyors, consulting engineers, architects, accountants, auditors, brokers, and patent and trade mark agents where we aim to enhance the service we provide by drawing on our expertise in the related area of chambers practice.

The Team