When tax advice strays from planning to avoidance and evasion (2)

So how does one begin to establish whether there is a claim against a previous adviser? As mentioned in our first article, many of our cases are referred to us from financial advisers, so the following is a guide to some of the questions you could ask a client to help establish if they may have a case for professional negligence against their former adviser: * Was advice or information given about the investment/tax mitigation scheme in question? If so, was it advice or information that a reasonably competent adviser should have given? * What were the adviser's terms of engagement? ...