The growth of liability claims against professionals over the last decade has brought both business and problems to the insurance market. Some of the problems have been created by tensions within the common law with the policy of tort law pushing towards an extension of professional liability and contractual analysis pulling in the opposite direction. These tensions have now diminished with the triumph of contractual analysis and the acceptance of restraint and pragmatism as guiding the application of the law of tort. In his Foreword to this