A person who voluntarily assumes an advisory role outside their professional competence and holds themselves out as qualified to give such advice may owe a duty of care to the person advised, even though the advisory role is unrelated to the person's contracted services. The fact that the adviser is not truly qualified does not prevent the existence of a duty of care. Whether such a duty exists in a particular case will usually require determination at trial after the relevant facts have been found.
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