Damages for Loss of Chance in Professional Negligence Claims

An essay which records and elaborates on a series of lectures given in February 2016, setting out the principles of assessing damages in professional negligence claims where loss of chance is an issue. The author deals with both loss of civil litigation opportunity and loss of transaction opportunity, tracing the historical development of both and finally discussing the latest important Court of Appeal decision in November 2015, Wellesley LLP v Withers LLP [2015] EWCA Civ 1146