{"id":238,"date":"2021-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fenchurchlaw.hostingsystems.co.uk\/uk\/blog\/2021\/08\/09\/latest-aggregation-decision\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:26:05","slug":"latest-aggregation-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fenchurchlaw.com\/en-uk\/latest-aggregation-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest aggregation decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what will be a relief both to the victims of dishonest solicitor Linda Box (pictured, and christened by the press the &#8220;Gangsta Granny&#8221;) and to her innocent partners in the former firm of Dixon Coles &amp; Gill, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment today (06.08.21) in this important decision for those involved with solicitors&#8217; professional indemnity disputes. The Court of Appeal dismissed the insurer&#8217;s appeal and instead confirmed the decision below that the various claims, emanating from Mrs Box&#8217;s numerous thefts from numerous clients, did not arise from\u00a0<em>&#8220;one series of related acts and omissions&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0and thus did\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0aggregate. In short, the Court of Appeal held that each client&#8217;s claim arose from the specific thefts which it had suffered, rather than all of the different clients&#8217; claims having arisen from the totality of the thefts. Put another way, a theft from client A did not cause client B&#8217;s loss and vice-versa.<\/p>\n<p>Adding salt to the insurer&#8217;s wounds, the Court of Appeal did identify (at para. 82 of its judgment) an ingenious argument which might have worked in the insurer&#8217;s favour, or at the very least have enabled it to survive what was an application for summary judgment and instead have the argument tested at a trial. However, the argument had formed no part of the insurer&#8217;s submissions and the Court of Appeal held it was too late for it to be pursued.<\/p>\n<p>The full judgment is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2021\/1211.html\">https:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2021\/1211.html\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fenchurchlaw.co.uk\/people\/jonathan-corman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Corman<\/a> is a partner at Fenchurch Law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what will be a relief both to the victims of dishonest solicitor Linda Box (pictured, and christened by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-professional-risks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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