Estate agents
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Faruk v Wyse and others
Estate agents — Breach of duty — A ‘sorry affair’ — Plaintiff deceived into parting with house to a person with whom there was no contract and who proved in…
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Hampton & Sons v Garrard Smith (Estate Agents) Ltd
Estate agency — Sharing of commission — Dispute between two sets of estate agents — Appeal, involving some points of pleading and procedure, from decision of Whitford J dismissing an…
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Luck v Davenport-Smith
Various disputes between estate agent and former employee–Commission payable on sales negotiated before, but completed after, leaving principal’s service–Covenant restricting employee from setting up in practice or accepting employment in…
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McCullagh v Lane Fox & Partners Ltd
Estate agents — Misstatement of area of property — Whether purchaser suffers loss — Whether vendor’s estate agent owes duty of care to purchaser in respect of negligent misstatement
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Murray v Sturgis and others
Action against estate agents for breach of contract of management — Letting of furnished flat on behalf of client who had to take up a professional appointment abroad — Failures…
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Withey Robinson (a firm) v Edwards
Estate agency — Professional charges — Instructions by client intending to purchase a night-club to firm of chartered surveyors ‘to provide valuations orally of the premises and business, to prepare…
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Property Choice Ltd v Fronda and another
Estate agents — Commission — Whether agents entitled to payment — Construction of agency agreement — Agents appointed ‘as sole agents’, but the form provided that until the expiration of…
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Stephenson v Donaldson & Sons
Unsuccessful libel action against firm of estate agents, surveyors and valuers — Claim by plaintiff, who had instructed the defendants in connection with the compulsory acquisition of his shop and…
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Enfield London Borough Council v Castles Estate Agents Ltd
Estate agents — Property Misdescriptions Act 1991 — Property without planning permission described as bungalow — Whether estate agents established statutory defence of taking all reasonable steps and due diligence…
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Calvert, Hunt & Barden v Elton
Estate agents’ branch manager subject to three-year, three-mile covenant in restraint of trade–Validity of covenant upheld–Relevance in this regard (a) of manager’s record in his previous employment, (b) of his…
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John D Wood & Co v Bardiger
Estate agency — Actions by agents for damages for anticipatory breach of contract and for commission — Claim based on sole agency — House sold to purchaser introduced by another…
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Hilbery Chaplin & Co v Trowbridge and another
Covenants restraining ex-employees of firm of estate agents from carrying on, or being concerned with, the business of an estate agent within a defined radius of their former office –…