Solicitors
Barristers
Surveyors
Accountants
Financial Advisors
Insolvency Practitioners
Company Directors

 


Born: 1st June 1948 (Manchester)

Call: 1970 (Gray's Inn)

Education and Qualifications:
Manchester Grammar School
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; MA (Cantab)

Associations:
Northern Circuit
Chancery Bar Association
Northern Chancery Bar Association
(Chairman from 1994-1997)
Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association Professional Negligence Bar Association

  
 

Robert Sterling

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Robert Sterling has been a member of St. James's Chambers since 1971 and became Head of Chambers in 1992.

Robert specialises in Chancery and commercial litigation with a broad experience in professional negligence cases. His litigation practice in this field tends to focus on solicitors' and accountants' negligence. He also appears in the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and frequently advises on professional issues relating to solicitors. He undertakes arbitration and mediation work and sits as an arbitrator.

Areas of work:

Solicitors
giving wrong advice, failing to give advice, mishandling of litigation, negligence regarding drafting, conveyancing, security documentation and wills, breaches and conflicts of duty, undue influence, breaches of undertaking and duties to third parties, solicitors' liability for costs and Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal

Barristers
giving wrong advice, failing to give advice, negligent drafting, mishandling of litigation and conflicts

Surveyors
negligent surveys, valuations and rent reviews and failing to warn

Accountants
giving wrong advice, negligent auditing standards and controls and negligent valuations

Financial Advisors
breaches of financial regulation, including claims arising from wrongful financial promotion, mis-advice, mis-selling, non-disclosure and negligent investment

Insolvency
claims against liquidators and trustees in bankruptcy in negligence, particularly in regard to the sale of assets and the handling of a winding up or bankruptcy

Company directors
breaches of duty


He has appeared in a number of reported professional negligence cases, including the following:

Reported cases:

Alsop Wilkinson v. Neary [1996]

Naidu v. Naidu and Brown Turner Compton Carr [2000]

Re Salmet International Limited (in administration) [2001]

Re Pybus [2002]

Bradmount Investments Ltd v, Williams de Broe Plc [2005]

Maden v. Clifford Coppock & Carter [2005]