Surveyor negligence (Record no. 66263)

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Title Surveyor negligence
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2001
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Series statement Estates Gazette Case Summaries
Volume/sequential designation [2001] EGCS 21(1) (24/02/01)
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Summary, etc. "Etam plc v Baker Almond (a firm)" ChD 29 January 2001. Etam (E) instructed Baker Almond (BA) to contact the owners of an old department store (K) with a view to purchase. BA made four offers on E's behalf, none of which were accepted. When K agreed to sell the premises to E through BA the surveyor wrote a 'letter of comfort' to E which stated, inter alia, that the price of £2.705m was justifiable as the store had an annual rental value of £125,000. A subsequent retrospective valuation, commissioned from DTZ by E, valued the store at £1.5m at the time of purchase in 1985. In 1999 E began proceedings, claiming that the advice in the letter had been given negligently. BA contended that this was not the case and that the claim was statute-barred. The claim was dismissed on the grounds that the valuation was not one that a reasonably competent surveyor could not have reached in the circumstances and that the limitation could not be disregarded as E should have sought expect advice when the alternative valuation was received in 1987.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element COMFORT LETTERS
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Topical term or geographic name entry element ETAM PLC V BAKER ALMOND (A FIRM)
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Topical term or geographic name entry element NEGLIGENCE
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE-NEGLIGENCE-CASE LAW
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     London London News article 01/03/2001   WB3709-21 111218-1001 06/08/2019 1 06/08/2019 Law report