TFL Vsebine / Pravni letopis

Predmet prispevka je odgovornost za napake v pravnem mnenju, ki ga stranki poda neodvisni pravni strokovnjak oziroma konzultant. Če se naročnik zanaša na zmotno pravno mnenje, mu zaradi tega lahko nastane precejšnja škoda, h kateri pa je pravni svetovalec pripomogel samo posredno, saj za naročnika neposredno ni opravljal pravnih poslov ali procesnih dejanj. Pravno razmerje med naročnikom in pravnim svetovalcem je mogoče kvalificirati kot pogodbo o naročilu avtorskega dela, ki predstavlja posebno obliko podjemne pogodbe. Odgovornost je zato potrebno presojati po določbah Obligacijskega zakonika. Konzultant mora pri pripravi pravnega mnenja ravnati s skrbnostjo dobrega strokovnjaka. Kdaj gre za napako, je odvisno od opredelitve konzultantove naloge, zlasti stopnje njene konkretnosti oziroma abstraktnosti. Za odškodninsko odgovornost konzultanta je potrebno napako pravočasno grajati, v pravdi pa dokazati vzročno zvezo med napako v mnenju in nastankom škode ter predvidljivost obsega take škode.

The subject of the article is the liability for defects in a legal opinion prepared for a party by an independent legal expert or consultant. The client can incur significant damage by relying on a mistaken legal position from the opinion. However, legal consultants can contribute only indirectly to the occurrence of the damage as they do not personally perform any legal transactions or procedural acts for the client. The legal relationship between a client and a legal consultant can be qualified as a contract on the creation of a copyrighted work, which is in itself a special form of the contract for work or services. The consultant must act with the diligence of a good expert when preparing the opinion. Liability needs to be judged according to the provisions of the Obligations Code. The definition of defects in the legal opinion depends on the content of the consultant’s job, especially how abstract or concrete it is. In order to enforce consultant’s liability for damages, the defects must be notified in time and the causal link between the defect and the occurrence of the damage must be proved along with the foreseeability of the extent of such damage.

The Liability for Defects in Independent Legal Expert’s Legal Opinion