Subsidence
Subsidence
- 1995
- Estates Gazette Case Summaries (1995) EGCS 105(1) (24/6/95) .
"Higgins and another v Hatch & Fielding (a firm)" CA 9 June 1995. Surveyors noted in a survey slight settlement but advised further movement unlikely. Some years later the property owners, made aware of further settlement, pursued a claim only against their insurance company and not against the surveyors as well. CA maintained a reasonable person would have pursued both claims at the same time and upheld that subsequent action against surveyors was statute-barred.
LIMITATION ACT 1980 S14(A)
NEGLIGENCE
SURVEYORS
VALUERS REPORT
"Higgins and another v Hatch & Fielding (a firm)" CA 9 June 1995. Surveyors noted in a survey slight settlement but advised further movement unlikely. Some years later the property owners, made aware of further settlement, pursued a claim only against their insurance company and not against the surveyors as well. CA maintained a reasonable person would have pursued both claims at the same time and upheld that subsequent action against surveyors was statute-barred.
LIMITATION ACT 1980 S14(A)
NEGLIGENCE
SURVEYORS
VALUERS REPORT