Summary of Stephen Tromans KC’s Advice to Groundsure, July 2022

Conveyancers’ Duty of Care to Advise Clients about Climate Risk.

Stephen Tromans KC Legal Opinion.

Risks change over time and climate risk analysis is now an essential part of understanding the forward risk on clients’ land and property transactions.

With the launch of our ClimateIndex, forward climate analysis is now automatically provided in our key residential and commercial searches at no extra cost.

Now, exclusive to Groundsure, one of the UK’s leading environmental law barristers, Stephen Tromans KC, has released his legal opinion on a firm’s duty of care to identify climate risk.

The legal opinion is provided alongside a handy 1 page executive summary, as well as the questions asked to frame the basis for the opinion. These will arrive as a zip file on download.