Cutlers Holdings Ltd (formerly Sheffield United Ltd) [2023] EWHC 720 (Ch) is the latest in a (very) long list of football-related claims against law firms, addressing the point at which solicitors are under a duty to advise on own interest conflicts where the solicitor has been negligent. The requirements of the SRA Code of Conduct 2011, applicable at the time, while not determinative of the duties at common law, were held to be a guide to the standard of conduct expected. Negligent failure to inform the client of a breach did not give rise to a separate cause of action in the absence of conscious disloyalty to the client.
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