Horbury v Craig Hall & Rutley

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1991
Date1991
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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5 cases
  • Byrne v Pain & Foster
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 December 1999
    ...case of a house purchaser, the cause of action would normally accrue when contracts are exchanged. This approach was adopted in Horbury v Craig Hall & Rutley [1991] CILL 692." 10 Strongly though that paragraph appears to support the defendants' argument, there are these comments to be made ......
  • Hamlin and Another v Edwin Evans (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 4 July 1996
    ...he nevertheless rightly considered since they were not only relevant but in conflict with each other. In Horbury v Craig Hall & Rutley ([1991] EGCS 81) Judge Bowsher, QC, sitting as an Official Referee, held that a later and more serious discovery of a defect was time-barred since the writ ......
  • Birmingham Midshires Building Society (Plaintiff) J D Wretham (Formerly Trading as Wrethams) (First Defendant) A N Pearce (Formerly Trading as Wrethams) (Second Defendant) Stapley & Company (A Firm)(Third Defendants)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 30 November 1998
    ...Third Defendants, namely Hamlin & anor v Edwin Evans [1996] PNLR 398, to which I have already referred, and Horbury v Craig Hall & Rutley [1991] EGCS 81. I preface my comments on them by the general reflection that in view of the nature of the question and of the way in which it is to be ap......
  • Lee Witcomb v J. Keith Park Solicitors (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 20 July 2021
    ...£34,000 to remedy, the claim was time-barred. Waite LJ there referred to an even more dramatic example in Horbury v Craig Hall & Rutley [1991] EGCS 81, another surveyor's negligence case where time ran from the discovery of a defect costing £132 to remedy, meaning that a claim was time-barr......
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