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Clare Dixon

Lawyers

Claims against solicitors comprise the largest share of Clare’s professional liability practice and she has a wide breadth of experience across this field. She is frequently instructed in cases involving “lost litigation” of a variety of types, property related disputes (including undue influence) and matrimonial matters.

Examples of her notable and recent cases include:

  • In Apsion v (1) Dilnot, (2) Butler and (3) Hugh James LLP LTL 11/4/2013, acting for a barrister who had been subjected to repeated claims by the same individual in a successful application for an extended civil restraint order and an injunction pursuant to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
  • Defending a firm of solicitors in a claim said to be worth several million pounds arising out of the drafting of a Development and Option Agreement for the sale of a parcel of industrial land (as junior to Graeme McPherson QC).
  • Defending a firm of solicitors in a claim concerned with their drafting of various construction contracts (as junior to Roger Stewart QC).
  • Defending to trial a firm of solicitors in a claim arising out of personal injury litigation: Amin v IKP [2011] EWHC 2958
  • Defending solicitors in a quantum only trial which considered the correct measure of loss in a no-transaction case: Scott v Kennedys Law LLP [2011] EWHC 3808 (Ch).
  • Acting for a lender in a claim against a solicitor involving allegations of deceit, breach of trust and breach of fiduciary duty.
  • Defending to trial a firm of solicitors in a claim arising out of their retention by an employer in employment tribunal proceedings.
  • Defending to trial a firm of solicitors in a claim brought by a “disappointed beneficiary”.
  • Acting for a Law Centre in a claim brought against it for wasted costs.
  • Acting for an individual in a claim against solicitors arising out of her divorce (as junior to Roger Stewart QC).
  • Acting for an individual in a claim against solicitors by reason of whose negligence he had not been granted access to his children for a number of years.