Cases - Old Gate Estates Ltd v Toplis

Record details

Name

Old Gate Estates Ltd v Toplis

Date

[1939]

Citation

3 AII ER 209

Keywords

Negligence in valuations and surveys

Summary

The defendant carried out a valuation of an investment property (a block of flats) for a company. A claim that the defendant had been negligent failed for other reasons, but the court accepted that, in normal circumstances, a valuer's duty of reasonable care and skill requires him or her to collect relevant information personally, rather than merely relying on what can be learned from a second-hand source.