When Maria Grondona committed mortgage fraud she didn’t think that her plans would inadvertently fall apart because of the negligence of her solicitors. She pursued a claim for professional negligence but the key question in that case was whether that claim should be allowed to proceed given her own illegal activities. In this episode we also consider the development of case law since the 2016 decision in Patel v Mirza.

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