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  • Fred Bloggs
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    Originally posted by cojak View Post
    Because they have no duty of care to YOU, only to their client - the scheme owner…

    https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tax/...rm=Read%20more

    Thanks. He isn't the only "gun for hire" who I have long regarded as an unreliable source of opinion. Many here will know the other(s) anyway and take large pinch of salt as required.

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  • cojak
    started a topic A QC’s opinion means diddly squat

    A QC’s opinion means diddly squat

    Because they have no duty of care to YOU, only to their client - the scheme owner…

    https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tax/...rm=Read%20more

    Even for investors who had actually read Thornhill’s opinion, the judge was equally content that Thornhill owed no duty of care. “He was expressly identified as tax adviser to the Sponsor. Any reasonable investor would have understood that.”
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