Questão jurídica principal
Whether the lawyer breached his duty of diligence by failing to detect the inaccuracy of the pension certificate submitted in the divorce case.
Decisão extraída
No breach was established; the lawyer could reasonably rely on the certificate as submitted by the client and had no duty to suspect hidden pre-marital assets.
Fundamentação extraída
The client himself was best placed to know about the earlier pension affiliation and transferred vested benefits, but forwarded the updated certificate without reservation. Nothing on the face of the document should have alerted counsel that the amount included pre-marital assets.