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Solicitors` duty of care

Language: English Series: Estates Gazette Case Summaries ; 1992 EGCS 50 (11/4/92)Publication details: 1992Subject(s): Summary: "McManus Development Ltd v Barbridge Properties Ltd and another" CA 31 March 1992. Solicitors instructed by the plaintiff purchaser (M) were guilty of negligence in failing to provide a land registry file plan of the freehold, the extent of which had been misrepresented by B, the defendant, thus causing expense and delay in its redevelopment.

"McManus Development Ltd v Barbridge Properties Ltd and another" CA 31 March 1992. Solicitors instructed by the plaintiff purchaser (M) were guilty of negligence in failing to provide a land registry file plan of the freehold, the extent of which had been misrepresented by B, the defendant, thus causing expense and delay in its redevelopment.