Negligence
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Stockley v Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Negligence — Action by tenant against her council landlords — Severe weather caused freezing of pipe supplying tenant’s flat with cold water from the main, resulting in a subsequent burst…
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Predeth v Castle Phillips Finance Co Ltd (M Kent, Third Party)
Negligence — Valuation — Court of Appeal uphold decision in favour of chartered surveyor — Mortgagees, unsuccessful defendants in action by mortgagor for failure to obtain true market value on…
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Banque Bruxelles Lambert SA v Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd and others
Negligence — Valuation of commercial properties for loan purposes — Valuation above sale prices — Whether valuers liable in contract or only tort — Whether bank contributorily negligent — Measure…
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Farmer Giles Ltd v Wessex Water Authority and another
Damages — Collapse of wall — Liability admitted — Conflict as to measure of damages — Whether cost of reinstatement, market value of property without development potential or compensation for…
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Heathcote and another v David Marks & Co
Negligence — Mortgage valuation report — Limitation Act 1980, section 14A — Whether plaintiffs had knowledge to commence proceedings — Whether knowledge of plaintiffs included that of solicitors
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Gardner and another v Marsh & Parsons and another
Negligence — Structural survey — Damages — Purchase of long lease of maisonette — Landlord remedying defect at plaintiffs’ instigation — Whether damages payable on Philips v Ward principles –…
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European Partners in Capital (EPIC) Holdings BV v Goddard & Smith
Negligence — Mortgage valuation — Whether plaintiffs entitled to summary judgment in claim for damages for professional negligence in absence of supporting opinion as to defendant valuers’ valuation
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Mount Banking Corporation Ltd v Brian Cooper & Co
Negligence — Whether defendant company negligent in the valuation of a property for a mortgagee
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County Personnel (Employment Agency) Ltd v Alan R Pulver & Co
Negligence–Claim against solicitors–Advice in regard to underlease–Unusual rent review clause–Rent of underlease of two rooms on ground floor of a building was to be £3,500 per annum inclusive of rates…
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Bolton v Puley
Action against surveyor for negligence and breach of duty arising out of a report of a survey commissioned by the plaintiff before he purchased a property — Defective boundary wall…
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Kitney v Jones Lang Wootton
Limitation of action — Preliminary issue — Whether for the purpose of section 2 of the Limitation Act 1980 the cause of action arose prior to the period of six…
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PK Finans International (UK) Ltd v Andrew Downs & Co Ltd
Negligence — Valuation — Whether surveyor should have verified planning assumption — Whether contributory negligence by plaintiffs in failing to send valuation to their solicitors to verify planning assumption –…