CURRENT EDITIONS

Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability
7th Edition
General Editors: John Powell, QC and Roger Stewart, QC
Consultant Editor: The Rt. Hon Lord Justice Jackson

"The bible on the law of professional negligence."
New Law Journal

"Outstandingly accurate and comprehensive coverage of the present law and...perceptive identification of points of growth and controversy."
Law Quarterly Review

Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability is the most established and authoritative work in the field of professional negligence law. It is divided into two parts: chapters covering the general law around professional negligence – the duties, remedies, defences, litigation, human rights issues – are followed by detailed chapters covering individual professions in turn.

  • Considers the nature of professional liability
  • Discusses the difference between tortuous liability and contractual liability
  • Considers the standard of skill and care including the relevance of the defendant's qualifications and experience
  • Explains the nature of a fiduciary duty including unauthorised profits and undue influence
  • Discusses the origins of the duty of confidentiality including the continuing duty to former clients
  • Considers the remedies available
  • Considers available defences including equitable defences
  • Differentiates between limitation in contract, tort and equity
  • Investigates the nature and scope of Professional Indemnity Insurance
  • Discusses the FSA and financial regulation
  • Has separate chapters on individual professionals providing commentary from the start of action through to adjudication and damages if appropriate
    • - Construction professionals
    • - Surveyors
    • - Solicitors
    • - Barristers
    • - Financial Practitioners
    • - Insurance Brokers
    • - Accountants and Auditors
    • - Actuaries
    • - Information Technology Professionals
    • - Patent and Trademark Attorneys

December 2011
978-0-414-04780-8
£285 / €362

Contents

1. History of the Law of Contempt
2. Contempt of Court: The Constitutional Dimensions
3. The Distinctions between Criminal and Civil Contempt
4. The Statutory Regime for Strict Liability
5. Contempts by Publication at Common Law
6. Court Orders Affecting the Media
7. Court Reporting I: Restrictions under the 1981 Act
8. Court Reporting II: Other Statutory Restrictions
9. Protection of Sources
10. Contempt in the Face of the Court
11. Direct Interference with the Administration of Justice
12. Civil Contempt
13. Jurisdiction
14. Sanctions and Remedies
15. Practice, Procedure and Public Funding
16. Scotland
Appendices


FROM THE EXPERTS

Written by a team of leading barristers from 4 New Square Chambers.

John Powell, QC's practice is complex commercial litigation, arbitration and advisory work in the UK and overseas. This is reflected in his renowned leading text books on professional liability, financial services and securities regulation. He has considerable experience of acting as an arbitrator, as well acting as an expert in overseas litigation on UK financial services and professional liability issues. His advisory work related to professional liability typically engages insurance issues and professional terms of engagement. Occasionally he presents papers on subjects within his expertise in UK and abroad.

Roger Stewart, QC has a mixed national and international commercial practice specialising in professional liability, construction, insurance and re-insurance. He is regularly appointed as an arbitrator in high-value and sensitive disputes. Roger is an established and extremely experienced leader who has undertaken some of the highest profile disputes across a number of fields in recent years. He is a Recorder and appointed to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Technology and Construction Court.

Mark Cannon, QC s a commercial practitioner specialising in professional liability claims in a commercial context (acting for both claimants and defendants), insurance and reinsurance, construction and commercial disputes. He appears before the Commercial Court, Chancery Division, TCC and appellate courts as well as in arbitrations. Mark is editor of Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability (Sweet & Maxwell, 6th edition, 2007) since the 3rd edition (1992).

David Turner, QC specialises in commercial insurance and reinsurance, professional liability and commercial product liability disputes. David's practice, both as a junior and now as a silk, has been typically involved large-scale disputes in the Commercial Court, Chancery Division, the Technology and Construction Court. He is an editor of Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability and author of the chapter on Professional Indemnity Insurance in the current, 6th, edition.

Fiona Sinclair's practice focuses upon commerce and construction. In the field of professional liability, her particular expertise in claims against construction professionals is well-known. She undertakes substantial construction, transport and engineering cases for employers and contractors, as well as recovery claims for property insurers. Fiona appears regularly in the TCC and in the Commercial Court, on appeal, and in arbitrations and mediations. She is a TECBAR-accredited adjudicator and acts as an editor of Jackson and Powell on Professional Negligence (Sweet & Maxwell, 6th edition, 2007) since the 3rd edition (1992). She writes the chapters on Construction Professionals and Expert Evidence.


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