Finnegan v Allen

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1943
Date1943
CourtCourt of Appeal

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15 cases
  • Arenson v Arenson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 February 1973
    ...D. 148; Chambers v. Goldthorpe (1901) 1 Q. B. 624. The next a valuer, Boynton v. Richardson (1924) W. N. 262. The last an accountant. Finnegan v. Allen (1943) K. B. 425. 33 The Judge felt impelled by those cases to strike out theclaim against the auditors. He said that "short of fraud" they......
  • Sutcliffe v Thackrah
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 12 February 1974
    ...and arbitrators must be impartial and fair, anyone who has to be impartial and fair must be treated as a judge or an arbitrator. 109 Finnegan v. Allen [1943] 1 K.B. 425 (recently followed in Arenson v. Arenson [1973] Ch. 346) is the case upon which the suggested immunity of the valuer res......
  • Jones v Sherwood Computer Services Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 December 1989
    ...and 1976. The reason for that was that in 1954 there was an established line of authority, from Pappa v. Rose [1871] L.R. 7 CP 32 to Finnegan v. Allen [1943] KB 425 to the effect that a valuer who had given a certificate as an expert was not liable to an action unless he was dishonest, but ......
  • Saif Ali v Sydney Mitchell & Company
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 2 November 1978
    ...however negligently he may have conducted his valuation, he was immune from being sued either by A. or B. in respect of his negligence: Finnegan v. Allen [1943] K.B. 425. That supposed immunity accorded to accountants was swept away by the unanimous decision of your Lordships' House in Are......
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