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035			_a(Sirsi) u6705
041			_aeng
245			_aG. Percy Trentham Ltd v Beattie Watkinson and Partners
260			_c1987
350			_a0
490			_aScots Law Times _v(1987) SLT 449-452(4)
520			_aOuter House 7 June 1985. An action of damages raised by the pursuers ( building contractors )(B) for professional negligence against the defenders ( civil engineers )(C). Part of a wall of a building being renovated by B collapsed and under the contract terms with the owners B had to reinstate the wall. They sought to recover the costs incurred from C. B claimed that the wall collapsed by reason of pressure from fill in an inaccessible space increased by water saturation and which could not be resisted by the wall after excavations had taken place. They blamed C for failing to investigate soil and ground conditions in the area of the wall, for failing to indicate the presence of fill in drawings and for failing to direct that the wall be shored, all on the basis that a reasonable competent engineer would have done so. Held that there was a relationship of proximity between the parties, but the scope of duty owed by the engineers was not necessarily based on what a reasonably competen
650			_aDUTY OF CARE
650			_aG PERCY TRENTHAM LTD V BEATTIE WATKINSON AND PARTNERS
690			_aBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION-CASE LAW
942			_n0
948			_c04/03/1997
999			_c3996 _d3996