Anwar Patrick Adrian v Ng Chong & Hue LLC

A solicitor may owe a duty of care in tort to a non-client third party (here, the client's sons whom the client intended to benefit) for negligently causing pure economic loss, the existence of such a duty being determined by the two-stage Spandeck test (informed by the assumption-of-responsibility reasoning of White v Jones) rather than by an automatic contractual relationship.