Solicitors Negligence in UK Law
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Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd
... ... deceived in the deal, and that his Company was let down by the solicitors. The man who sold the shares has since died. His estate cannot be ... for want of prosecution and themselves rendered liable for negligence to the plaintiff as their own former client" ... 4 Following those ... ...
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Johnson v Gore Wood & Company (A Firm)
... ... The other is Gore Wood & Co., a firm of solicitors, who cross-appeal against a decision of the Court of Appeal, on a ... On 8 January 1991 WWH started proceedings for professional negligence against GW. In those proceedings GW admitted that it owed WWH a duty to ... ...
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Perry v Raleys Solicitors
... ... 2 A group of test cases, representative of some 25,000 similar claims, established that there had been negligence on the part of the National Coal Board, later British Coal, in failing to take reasonable steps to limit the exposure of employed miners to VWF from ... ...
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White and Another v Jones and Another
... ... Jones's deliberate act or his negligence the plaintiffs had failed to obtain the benefit, the plaintiffs would have ... under a will is entitled to recover damages from the testator's solicitors by reason of whose negligence the testator's intention to benefit him ... ...
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Barratt v Ansell (t/a as Woolf Seddon); Arthur JS Hall & Company v Simons
... ... Clients raised claims in negligence against firms of solicitors. In response the solicitors relied on the ... ...
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Carr-Glyn v Frearsons (A Firm)
... ... The respondents are a firm of solicitors whom the testatrix instructed to prepare her last will, which she executed ... 12 The allegations of negligence on which the appellant relied in support of her claim may be summarised as ... ...
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Kitchen v Royal Air Force Association
... ... points for our determination; (1) Did the Appellants act as Solicitors for the Plaintiff during some, and if so, what period in the years 1945 ... to their client: in other words, were the Appellants guilty of negligence towards the Plaintiff? (2) If so, then since admittedly the Limitation ... ...
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Bell v Peter Browne & Company
... ... action, for breach of contract and in tort, arising out of his solicitors' alleged negligence. The facts as pleaded lie in a very small compass. In ... ...
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ARBUTHNOTT and Others v FAGAN and FELTRIM UNDERWRITING AGENCIES Ltd and Others and Two Other Actions (1st Appeal) ARBUTHNOTT and Others v FAGAN and FELTRIM UNDERWRITING AGENCIES Ltd and Others and Two
... ... words as well as deeds, and further that liability may arise in negligence in respect of pure economic loss which is not parasitic upon physical ... 384, 416F-G ... (a case concerned with concurrent liability of solicitors in tort and contract, to which I will have to refer in a moment) an ... ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Etridge (No 2); Kenyon-Brown v Desmond Banks & Company (Undue Influence) (No 2); Bank of Scotland v Bennett; UCB Home Loans Corporation Ltd v Moore; National Westminster Bank Plc v Gill; Midland Bank Plc v Wallace; Barclays Bank Plc v Harris; Barclays Bank Plc v Coleman
... ... In any event, solicitors are not equipped to carry out such an exercise in any really worthwhile ... function in undue influence cases as res ipsa loquitur has in negligence cases. It recognises an evidential state of affairs in which the onus has ... ...
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