Think before you start your spring-cleaning
Think before you start your spring-cleaning
- 1986
- Chartered Surveyor Weekly 17(2) 27 November 1986,915 (1) .
Emphasises the importance of exercising patience and care in weeding office paperwork not only for the effective rebuttal of professional negligence claims but for cases in which a client may find himself involved in litigation after a lengthy period. Since claims often take years to reach a conclusion, making it possible for a claim to be made against a surveyor some years after the time limit has lapsed,it may be expedient to adopt a policy of microfilming.
DOCUMENT RETENTION
LIMITATION PERIODS
TIME LIMITS
Emphasises the importance of exercising patience and care in weeding office paperwork not only for the effective rebuttal of professional negligence claims but for cases in which a client may find himself involved in litigation after a lengthy period. Since claims often take years to reach a conclusion, making it possible for a claim to be made against a surveyor some years after the time limit has lapsed,it may be expedient to adopt a policy of microfilming.
DOCUMENT RETENTION
LIMITATION PERIODS
TIME LIMITS