Commercial update: Valuers’ negligence in the Supreme Court
21st December 2017
The Supreme Court has again reconsidered causation and loss, in the context of a professional negligence claim against a valuer. Richard Whitehouse analyses the recent decision in Tiuta International Limited (in liquidation) v De Villiers Surveyors Limited [2017] UKSC 77.
Richard is a Commercial Law barrister specialising in commercial contracts, the law of business entities, professional negligence, and insolvency. View his profile here.
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