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Examples of the kinds of ‘breaches’ leading to a liability claim in either criminal or civil proceedings are countless: fraud, breaches stemming from management decisions (such as investments, savings, licensing, tax optimisation, etc.), medical errors, accidents at work, illegal or excessive emissions, breaches in the contracting of work, traffic accidents and more.

Our attorneys take a real-world approach to this issue, viewing it from your organisation’s perspective. In other words, they regard liability as a risk you need to manage, a risk arising from an action that was not carried out by the book. First and foremost, this kind of ‘not by the book’ action is something that could have major consequences, including death, illness, injury, arrest, prosecution and more.

Also at the level of the activities of your company or organisation, however, the consequences and problems of liability are sometimes so serious that they could give rise to temporary or permanent business discontinuity. This could take the form of resource-devouring crisis management, loss of operating licences, loss of shareholders’ or stakeholders’ confidence, major fines, irrecoverable and/or uninsurable damage, etc.

Managing this liability risk, then, is clearly something that calls for more expertise than merely the traditional type of legal assistance provided once a dispute has arisen.