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Professional Negligence
Accountants and auditors
Laurie is highly numerate and understands statutory and management accounting methods (and is adept at spotting warning signs). He has acted in professional negligence matters involving negligent auditors and pensions investment advice by specialist fund managers.
Construction professionals
At the Bar, Laurie's cases have included a dispute between two major gas suppliers in the TCC, negligence relating to anti-corrosion technology in the North Sea oil and gas fields, negligent contamination of commercial carbon dioxide with benzene due to process failures and he also has experience of cases involving contractual construction, nano-technology, defective and negligently designed software intended for use in hospitals and negligence relating to telecomms software. As a civil Recorder for some 15 years, Laurie has undertaken TCC-type cases involving negligent builders and architects.
Financial professionals
Apart from cases involving auditors, Laurie acted for multi-million pound investors in a negligence dispute involving pensions investment advice by specialist fund managers.
Information technology professionals
Laurie has been involved in cases about nano-technology, negligence relating to telecomms software, negligently-designed software intended for use in hospitals and in facilities management for North Sea gas supply.
Insurance brokers
Laurie has wide experience of commercial disputes including some insurance wording, formation/avoidance issues and brokers' negligence. He recently tried and gave judgment in a reported PHI case involving issues of non-disclosure, waiver and inducement: [2010] Lloyd's Rep. IR 198: Lewis v Norwich Union Healthcare Limited, on BAILII at [2009] EW Misc 2 (EWCC), and commentated on in Insurance Law Monthly.
Laurie has acted for and against solicitors in negligence matters and recently took on a long-running solicitors' negligence matter, for the Claimant, relating to the misconduct of complex multi-national litigation - England and the Turks & Caicos Islands - relating to IP rights, and steered it to a successful conclusion in mediation.