All posts tagged "Negligence"
Independent Expert – getting your money’s worth
(2025 Aug) – In my experience, RICS-appointed Independent Experts fall in one of two categories. (1) Conscientious – by which I mean the IE will measure the premises and calculate areas regardless of what the parties might’ve agreed, investigate, research and test evidence for accuracy with the person(s) involved and not merely rely on pro-forma […]
Buyers of property to let less deserving of protection
(2011 Jun) Per Scullion v Bank of Scotland plc (t/a Colleys) [2011] the Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court decision that for buy-to-let residential property the valuer was liable to the purchaser. The CA held that although the valuer had been negligent and the purchaser had relied upon the valuer’s report (amongst other […]