Category: surveyors

Patel and another v Peters and others – WLR Daily

Posted April 1st, 2014 in appeals, construction industry, dispute resolution, fees, law reports, notification, party walls, surveyors by sally

Patel and another v Peters and others [2014] EWCA Civ 335; [2014] WLR (D) 147

‘Where the surveyor of a party involved in a dispute over building works affecting adjoining properties served a request under section 10(7) of the Party Wall etc Act 1996 on the surveyor of the other party that he act effectively in respect of the subject matter referred to in the request within ten days, after which, if he did not so act, the requesting surveyor became entitled to act ex parte in respect of the matter, a continuing state of affairs was created so that the other party’s surveyor might still act effectively after that ten-day period, thereby precluding the requesting surveyor from acting ex parte, provided that the requesting surveyor had not yet proceeded so to act.’

WLR Daily, 27th March 2014

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Anneliese Day QC and Michael Ryan successfully defend TCC claim against Engineers for professional negligence – 4 New Square Chambers

Posted July 31st, 2013 in costs, expert witnesses, negligence, news, surveyors by sally

“On 24 June 2013, Mr Justice Akenhead handed down judgment in Igloo Regeneration v Powell Williams Partnership [2013] EWHC 1718 (TCC). Anneliese Day QC and Michael Ryan acted for the successful defendant.”

Full story (PDF)

4 New Square Chambers, 17th July 2013

Source: www.4newsquare.com

Surveyor on £60,000 a year jailed after secret life as graffiti vandal exposed – Daily Telegraph

Posted June 18th, 2013 in criminal damage, news, perverting the course of justice, sentencing, surveyors by sally

“A surveyor who had a secret life as a graffiti vandal has been jailed for three and a half years.”

Full story

Daily Telegraph, 18th June 2013

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Crawford Adjusters (Cayman) Ltd and others v Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted June 14th, 2013 in abuse of process, insurance, law reports, malicious prosecution, Privy Council, surveyors by sally

Crawford Adjusters (Cayman) Ltd and others v Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Ltd [2013] UKPC 17; [2013] WLR (D) 229

“The tort of malicious prosecution extended to civil as well as criminal proceedings.”

WLR Daily, 13th June 2013

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Freetown Ltd v Assethold Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted May 28th, 2012 in appeals, law reports, party walls, service, surveyors, time limits by sally

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 – Speech by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls

Posted October 3rd, 2011 in civil procedure rules, dilapidations, expert witnesses, speeches, surveyors by sally

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 – WLR Daily

Posted March 25th, 2010 in duty of care, law reports, negligence, surveyors by sally

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

Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.

Platform Funding Ltd v Bank of Scotland plc (formerly Halifax plc) – Times Law Reports

Posted October 6th, 2008 in contracts, law reports, surveyors, valuation by sally

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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Platform Funding Ltd v Bank of Scotland plc (formerly Halifax plc) – WLR Daily

Posted August 4th, 2008 in contracts, law reports, surveyors, valuation by sally

Platform Funding Ltd v Bank of Scotland plc (formerly Halifax plc) [2008] EWCA Civ 930; [2008] WLR (D) 283

“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.