“…This view of the legislation was upheld in the context of a professional negligence claim by Roth J at first instance in Barker v Baxendale Walker [2016] EWHC 664 (Ch). It was, however, firmly rejected on appeal by this Court: see [2017] EWCA Civ 2056. Asplin LJ observed, at [47], that the interpretation adopted by the Court …”
“…Claim”) which Mr Barker had brought for negligence in 2013: see [2017] EWCA Civ 2056, [2018] 1 WLR 1905. Mr Barker had been unsuccessful at first instance (see [2016] EWHC 664 (Ch)), but on 8 December 2017 the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal, concluding that a reasonably competent solicitor would have warned Mr Barker that there was a s…”