LCRO 151/2017 NS v ET (12 March 2019) [pdf, 130 KB]
...it was not appropriate for Mr NS to simply assume that she could afford to instruct them on a private basis. To the contrary, it would have been abundantly clear to Mr NS that, at the time of the instructions, Mrs ET had very modest financial resources. [19] Further, the Committee held that because of Mrs ET’s various medical issues, of which Mr NS was aware that:3 his duty of care towards [her] was therefore even greater than would otherwise have been the case [and that her...