Mortgage valuations and reliance 05 December 2012 Alastair-Hammerton Causation, contributory negligence, damages, duty of care, foreseeability, liability (0) More on Phimister v DM Hall LLP [2012] CSOH 169 (see earlier posting), which concerned a valuation of a residential property in Scotland. The Claimant’s criticism is that the Defendant ought to have checked the Property’s acreage and, had he done so, he would have realised that it was 0.46 acres smaller. Lord Glennie dismissed the claim on the primary basis that the Defendant did not ... [More]
Mortgage valuer's duty to report plot size 05 December 2012 Alastair-Hammerton case report, duty of care (0) To what extent is a surveyor, who provides a mortgage valuation, obliged to check on the property’s precise acreage? This question was recently considered by Lord Glennie in Phimister v DM Hall LLP [2012] CSOH 169. The Claimant was a fisherman who, when not at sea, was a property developer. In 2007 he found a possible property (“Property”) comprising “traditional dwelling... [More]