A surveyor may have been careless, but a number of issues may have to be resolved before he is found to have been negligent. The matters complained of may have fallen outside his instructions. There may be a problem of causation. Special factors may affect the assessment of damages.
With such points in mind, it is not difficult to see why John Murdoch selected the High Court decision in Hanley Smith v Darlington [2001] 26 EG 160 (CS) as ideal material for his case study in
A surveyor may have been careless, but a number of issues may have to be resolved before he is found to have been negligent. The matters complained of may have fallen outside his instructions. There may be a problem of causation. Special factors may affect the assessment of damages.
With such points in mind, it is not difficult to see why John Murdoch selected the High Court decision in Hanley Smith v Darlington [2001] 26 EG 160 (CS) as ideal material for his case study in What’s in a survey Estates Gazette 28 July 2001, p111.
