Negligent Misrepresentation in UK Law
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Moors the Pity: The Case of the Missing Grouse Cramaso LLP v Ogilvie-Grant, Earl of Seafield and others
... ... opportunity for the Supreme Court to clarify the principles of negligent misrepresentation in Scots law, but also to provide an insight into the ... ...
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A Bit of an Ending: The Bre‐X Litigation, Class Actions and the Liability of Professionals
The notion of suing professionals — lawyers, brokers, accountants — appears to make good financial sense. It seems fiscally sensible because, while an offender may melt into the night, take up resi...... ... Two other claims, fraudulent or negligent misrepresentation, failed to satisfy the second.5 Journal of Financial ... ...
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Tan Cheng Han, The Law of Agency
... ... , deciding that such a principal is not liable for an agent's negligent misrepresentation. Lord Sumption described the concept (at 4048 to 4049) ... ...
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Measures in Misrepresentation: Recent Steps in Awarding Damages
... ... courts had only allowed damages for fraudulent misrepresentation in the tort of deceit'; the only remedy for innocent or negligent misrepresentation was rescission of the contract, if it was available, together with a limited payment - an indemnity - in some ... ...
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Reports of Committees
... ... REFORM OF THE LAW RELATING TO INNOCENT MISREPRESENTATION THE Tenth Report of the Lord Chancellor’s Law Reform ... was made by an agent) was neither fraudulent nor negligent in making the statement. This independent right to ... ...
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Australia and Canada: The Role of Policy in Professional Liability
The term ‘policy’ as used by the judges is mainly concerned with whether third parties should be allowed to recover economic loss suffered by them as a result of professional negligence. The answer...... ... Cardozo in Ultramares Corporation v Touche,4 a case concerning negligent misrepresentation, had to address the fundamental policy consideration, ... ...
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A Reappraisal of Solicitors’ Liabilities to Opposing Parties and the (Further) Retreat from Caparo – Steel and Another v NRAM Ltd
... ... the debt from HCL, they sued Steel, and her firm, for Steel's negligent misrepresentation ... The case was dismissed at first instance.2 NRAM's ... ...
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Statements of Fact and Statements of Belief in Insurance Contract Law and General Contract Law
... ... on a household contents policy on the basis of a misrepresentation as to the replacement cost of the insured property. At renewal of the ... not because he is wrong in his opinion, but because he is negligent in forming that opinion. The crucial point with respect to such an implied ... ...
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Hedley Byrne v. Heller: Judicial Creativity and Doctrinal Possibility
... ... Looking at the state of English law relating to negligent behaviour at the beginning of 1963, it is perhaps legitimate ... It may be that the law is that an innocent misrepresentation, altogether outside the field of contract, and ... ...
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STATUTES
... ... breach into deliberate, reckless and negligent categories is welcome. Lord Denning was not prepared to ... The Misrepresentation Act which came into force on April 22, 1967, p.rovides that ... ...
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