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Duty of care – valuers and the buy-to-let market

22 June 2011 | Jonathan Sachs Comments Off

Last October we reported on a case where a valuer was held to owe a duty of care to a purchaser on a buy-to-let property in respect of a valuation provided to the lender not the purchaser.  The valuation...

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An absence of independent legal advice

20 October 2010 | Clare Stothard Comments Off

This was a claim by a guarantor against a firm of solicitors.  The solicitors had provided a certificate to the bank confirming that they had advised the claimant, Mr O’Sullivan, in relation to his...

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Bank’s duty of care

17 December 2009 | Karen Jacobs

This case considered complaints that the bank had failed to act in accordance with normal banking practice and that it had not complied with advertisements which stated that there were locally based agricultural...

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