Professional negligence, Valuation
Negligence – Surveyor – Valuation – Duty of care – Surveyor valuing property for mortgagee in respect of buy-to-let transaction – Purchaser buying property in reliance on capital valuation and…
Professional negligence, Surveyor
Professional negligence – Legal advice – Loss of chance – Claimant reaching settlement in negligence claim against accountant – Claimant seeking damages from solicitor for professional negligence resulting in loss…
Personal injury – Defendant operating public house with central open staircase – Claimant injured in fall while attempting to slide down banisters – Whether defendant under duty of care –…
Negligence, Personal injury
Solicitor, Negligence
Negligence – Solicitor – Limitation of action – Limitation Act 1980 – Husband and wife jointly owning property – Husband forging wife’s signature on sale of property – Wife claiming…
Damages – Limitation – Claimants commencing proceedings against second defendant structural engineer for damages following flooding of garden room extension – Claimants alleging negligent advice to remedy water penetration –…
Negligence – Limitation of action
Fraud
Solicitor’s negligence – Limitation – Forgery of respondent’s signature on sale of property by her husband – Respondent claiming damages against appellant solicitor in negligence – Claim held not to…