On Friday, 2 October 2015 12:46:01 UTC+1, AnthonyL wrote:

My solicitor of a relatively small local firm points out that in the
past 5 or so years they've placed around Ł300k in indemnity insurance
of one sort or another and neither the firm nor any of the colleagues
in any other firm have ever encountered a claim.

That's because there never has been a claim made - no local authority has *ever* served an injunction (the action required after 12 months and hence why insurance cover requires the work to be this old). The legislation sits completely untested.

Mathew