Negligence
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Currys Group plc v Martin
Negligence — Independent expert — Rent review determination — Retail premises — Whether legal test for professional negligence satisfied by showing negligent methodology even if valuation was one reasonably competent…
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Belvedere Motors Ltd v King
Action against valuer for alleged negligence fails — Valuer appointed by president of the RICS to determine rent under review clause in a lease of industrial premises — Rent to…
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Craneheath Securities v York Montague Ltd
Negligence — Turnover valuation of restaurant premises for loan purposes — Whether valuer negligent in relying on figures and variables used in valuation
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Merivale Moore plc and another v Strutt & Parker
Negligence — Valuation — 46-year leasehold interest — Rental values — Yield rate — Whether rental values negligent — Whether advice on yield rate negligent without qualification
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Mortgage Express Ltd v Bowerman & Partners
Negligence — Subsale at substantially increased price — Whether solicitor acting for lender and subpurchaser owed duty to inform lender of price increase
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Whalley and another v Roberts & Roberts
Negligence — Claim by house purchasers against chartered surveyors — Mortgage valuation — House found to be out of level — No cracks in structure visible — Defect had been…
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Hawkins v Dhawan and another
Negligence — Liability as between occupiers of upper and lower flats — Damage from penetration by water — Appellant, plaintiff in the court below, was the occupier of a ground-floor…
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Zubaida v Hargreaves
Negligence — Rent review — Independent expert valuer — Whether expert wrongly relied on retail comparables instead of restaurants — Whether expert should make own inquiries — Whether valuation outside…
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Kerridge and another v James Abbott & Partners
Negligence — Surveyors — Whether defendant surveyors negligently carried out structural survey — Whether surveyor should have given a warning about dry rot
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Nyckeln Finance Co Ltd v Stumpbrook Continuation Ltd
Negligence — Valuation for mortgage purposes — Reliance — Whether defendant liable for collapse in property market — Whether plaintiff mitigated its losses — Whether contributory negligence
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Green and another v Ipswich Borough Council and another
Negligence — Dismissal of allegations of negligence by purchasers of house against local authority and surveyors instructed by building society to carry out mortgage valuation — Bewildering variety of diverse…
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Summers and another v Congreve Horner & Co (Independent Insurance Co Ltd, third party)
Insurance — Professional liability indemnity — Structural survey — Policy only indemnified and insured firm of surveyors where persons carrying out survey were always subject to supervision of a qualified…