Freetown Ltd v Assethold Ltd [2012] EWHC 1351 (QB); [2012] WLR (D) 162
“Service of a surveyor’s award sent by post, pursuant to section 15(1) of the Party Wall etc Act 1996, was effected when the award was consigned to the post.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Keynote speech, RICS Dilapidations Conference 2011 (PDF)
Speech by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls
Judiciary of England and Wales, 30th September 2011
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Scullion v Bank of Scotland plc [2010] EWHC 572 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 88
“A buy-to-let transaction was not very different from the ordinary residential house purchase when considering the duties and liabilities of valuers to purchasers of property, although each case might turn on its own facts.”
WLR Daily, 24th March 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Platform Funding Ltd v Bank of Scotland plc (formerly Halifax plc)
Court of Appeal
“A mortgage lender who instructed a surveyor to value a property as security, was entitled to damages from the surveyor for the losses suffered after the borrower defaulted on the loan, and it was discovered that the wrong property had been valued in breach of an unqualified obligation to inspect the particular property.”
The Times, 6th October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“A surveyor, instructed by a mortgage lender to value the property offered by the borrower as security for a loan, who certified that the property had been inspected and a fair valuation given, was liable in damages to the mortgage lender for losses suffered as a result of having valued the wrong property in breach of an unqualified obligation to inspect the specified property.”
WLR Daily, 1st August 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
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