Carr-Glyn v Frearsons (A Firm)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1997
Year1997
CourtChancery Division
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4 cases
  • Carr-Glyn v Frearsons (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 July 1998
    ...the solicitors in respect of their alleged breach of duty. The action was tried before Mr Justice Lloyd. His judgment is reported at [1997] 2 All ER 614. He held that, where a solicitor's breach of his duty of care to a testator in preparing her will resulted in a loss to the estate, the s......
  • Makhan et al. v. McCawley et al., (1998) 58 O.T.C. 283 (GD)
    • Canada
    • Ontario Ontario Court of Justice General Division (Canada)
    • 19 February 1998
    ...White et al. v. Jones et al., [1995] 1 All E.R. 691; 179 N.R. 197 (H.L.), refd to. [para. 7]. Carr-Glynn v. Frearsons (a firm), [1997] 2 All E.R. 614 (Ch. D.), dist. [para. Clarke v. Bruce Lance & Co. (a firm), [1988] 1 All E.R. 364 (C.A.), refd to. [para. 8]. Pizza Pizza Ltd. v. Gilles......
  • Punford v Gilberts Accountants (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 May 1998
    ...his estate will have a remedy against the solicitor" (see at page 268D). 14 The recent decision of Lloyd J in Carr-Glynn v Frearsons [1997] 2 All ER 614, to which Mr Hamer has referred us, illustrates that where the testator's personal representatives themselves have a remedy against the dr......
  • Helen Carr-Glynn v Frearsons (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
1 books & journal articles
  • Solicitors' will-making duties.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 26 No. 1, April 2002
    • 1 April 2002
    ...Blackburne J, 5 April 2000) 6-7 (`Gibbons'). (43) Earl v Wilhelm [1998] 2 WWR 522, 529 (`Earl'). (44) Carr-Glynn v Frearsons (a firm) [1997] 2 All ER 614, 621-2 (`Carr-Glynn (45) Otter [1953] 1 Ch 280, 287. (46) Cf Barcelo, 923 SW 2d 575, 577-8 (Tex, 1996). (47) [1999] Ch 326. (48) Ibid 332......

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