Lawyers predicting the future: disclosure in insurance contracts: CGU Insurance Ltd v Porthouse

Title: Lawyers predicting the future: disclosure in insurance contracts: CGU Insurance Ltd v Porthouse
Creator: Foster, Neil
Relation: Journal of Professional Negligence Vol. 24, Issue 4, p. 247-249
Relation: http://www.tottelpublishing.com/715/Tottel-Publishing-Journal-of-Professional-Negligence.html
Publisher: Tottel Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: Those who practice law professionally, especially as an advocate appearing before the court, can usually do so only if confident of their own abilities. But this case is a reminder that, as sure as one may be of the correctness of one's own view, it is unwise to exclude the possibility of error. The clause here required disclosure of a possibility (the High Court holds here, of the 'undemanding' nature of 'reasonably foreseeable' at common law, anything that is not 'far-fetched or fanciful'), and a possibility of not only a successful action, but merely an 'allegation'. Reasonable persons in the professional position of a barrister, the High Court tells us here, will be more than less expansive in the disclosure of such allegations when seeking insurance coverage.
Subject: insurance law; professional liability; duty of disclosure; CGU Insurance Ltd v Porthouse
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41581
Identifier: uon:4874
Identifier: ISSN:1746-6709
Language: eng
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