Professional Indemnity Insurance
As an additional client protection measure, all solicitors in private practice are required to maintain Professional Indemnity Insurance at a level and to a specification prescribed by LSNI.
This cover is a pre-condition to the ability to practice. As in Scotland (but not in England and Wales) LSNI has operated successfully for many years a mutual form of Professional Indemnity Insurance (through a corporate Master Policy) which provides a guarantee of recovery to clients where loss has been suffered through the actions of solicitors.
This reflects positively the willingness of the profession in Northern Ireland to assume a collegiate approach to, and responsibility for, client protection
