Surveyors
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Mount Credit Corporation Ltd v Abbey National Estate Agency Ltd (trading as J Trevor & Sons)
Lender instructing defendant to value properties – Lender increasing amount of loan after valuations – Borrower defaulting on repayments – Lender claiming negligent valuation – Valuer applying for leave to…
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Nykredit Mortgage Bank plc v Edward Erdman Group Ltd
Development site — Valuation for mortgage purposes — Money lent on basis of valuation — Borrowers falling behind with repayments — Property sold at less than purchase price — Lenders…
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Secured Residential Funding plc v Nationwide Building Society
Principal lender instructing agent – Agent required to obtain valuation of properties offered as security – Agent instructing defendant to value property – Borrower defaulting – Agent selling property for…
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Platform Home Loans Ltd v Oyston Shipways Ltd and others
Plaintiff lending funds on security of residential property — Defendants providing written valuations — Plaintiffs lending money on that basis — Borrower defaulting — Security inadequate and plaintiff suffering loss…
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Abbey National Mortgages plc v Key Surveyors Nationwide Ltd and others
Expert evidence — Property valuations — Whether expert evidence on valuation be limited to one witness for each side — Whether court should appoint its own expert under RSC Ord…
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CIL Securities Ltd v Briant Champion Long (a firm)
Duty of care — Valuation for rent review purposes — Defendant firm being employed to advise landlord — Commercial premises comprising a number of leases — Landlord contending that rent…
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Satnam Investments Ltd v Dunlop Heywood & Co Ltd and others
Plaintiff acquiring development site and instructing surveyor – Plaintiff going into receivership – Surveyor informing third party about site – Third party buying part of site – Whether surveyor owed…
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Smart and another v Royal Insurance plc (t/a William H Brown)
Defendants’ surveyor inspecting old building substantially extended four years before plaintiffs’ purchase – Mature oak tree standing nearby – Surveyor failing to report crack in new kitchen floor – Report…
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Cormack v Washbourne
Survey — Structural survey prior to purchase — Surveyor failing to look at geological map of area — Purchaser of property completing in reliance on survey — Subsidence eventually causing…
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Stockler and another v Hawker (t/a Robert Hawker & Associates)
Claimants instructing surveyor prior to purchase of property to produce survey report – Claimants discovering ingress of water into property after purchase – Whether surveyor negligent for failing to point…
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Mid Kent Water plc v Batchelor and others
Construction — Land transferred without planning permission — Expectation that transferors to share planning gain — Planning permission implemented — Basis on which land to be compared — Whether “hope…