Negligence
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PP 2000/90
If negligence, in the legal sense, is treated as a risk, rather than a moral failing, it has to be because the hypothetical reasonable practitioner (who never needs an aspirin,…
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PP 2000/139
Q A purchaser’s solicitor, who is required to remit a large part of the purchase price to the vendor’s mortgagee, pays the entire price to the vendor’s solicitor against an…
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PP 2000/62
For someone intending to buy a property abroad, the lesson to be learned from Gregory v Shepherds [2000] 50 EG 100 is that it may pay to instruct an English…
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PP 2000/59
Where a defendant is responsible for the loss of an opportunity that would otherwise have been open to the claimant, it is well established that the possibility that nothing might…
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PP 2000/5
Q A valuer reports to a lender. Does he fall into error if his 90-day mortgagee sale valuation is the same as his open market valuation?.
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PP 2000/20
Take the case of valuer whose only defence to a lender’s negligence claim is that he made the offending report more than six years before the start of the proceedings.