Legal update - professional negligence: A strong defence
The illegality principle may rear its head if a second dip of the recession takes hold and insolvency practitioners engage in civil claims. Tony Hill and Kate Thompson examine the issues professional negligence insurers face from this line of attack.
Before the high-profile decision of the House of Lords in Stone & Rolls v Moore Stephens (2009), the 'illegality principle' — known in Latin as ex turpi causa non oritur actio — had not significantly
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