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035 _a(Sirsi) u107749
245 _aSolicitor's negligence
260 _c2000
490 _aEstates Gazette Case Summaries
_v[2000]EGCS 98 (19/07/00)
520 _aPatel and another v Daybells (a firm), QBD 19 July 2000. Defendant solicitor paying entire purchase price to vendor's solicitor against undertaking of latter to redeem prior mortgage - Undertaking not fulfilled- Claimant purchasers unable to reduce liability to their bank -Whether defendant should have departed from normal conveyancing practice - Whether claimants' loss limited diminution in value of purchased property by reason of continuing incumbrance. Held. The defendant succeeded on the first issue. The claimants succeeded on the second issue.
650 _aSOLICITORS
650 _aNEGLIGENCE
650 _aPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
650 _aCONVEYANCING
650 _aDIMINUTION IN VALUE
690 _aPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE-NEGLIGENCE
942 _n0
999 _c64361
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