Negligent valuation

Negligent valuation - 1997 - Estates Gazette Case Summaries (1997) EGCS 183, (1) .

"Nightingale Finance Ltd v White & Co" ChD 18 December 1997. Three companies collaborated to provide mortgage finance. Alleged negligent valuations after valuer company collapsed and losses were sustained by plaintiff company (N). Valuer had not identified N as prospective lender. Whether relationship was sufficiently proximate to give rise to a duty of care. Judgment for N.


DUTY OF CARE
NEGLIGENCE
NIGHTINGALE FINANCE LTD V WHITE & CO
VALUATIONS
VALUERS