Middleton v Steeds Hudson

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1998
Year1998
CourtQueen's Bench Division

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3 cases
  • Henderson & Jones Ltd v David Jason Ross
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 26 May 2023
    ...back’ period but I have already rejected this. 642 . Nor did I find persuasive the Claimant's reliance on Middleton v Steeds Hudson [1998] 1FLR 738 (at [741]) to the effect that a letter of advice might have been expected where the client, as here, disregarded the solicitors' advice. As to ......
  • Wellesley Partners LLP v Withers LLP
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 11 March 2014
    ...to prefer the evidence of one witness to another. I find it of no help in the present case. 99 The second is Middleton v Steeds Hudson [1998] 1 FLR 738 at 741E where Johnson J said: "The absence of any written record or letter supporting the defendant's account of the meeting is clearly cog......
  • Harwood and another v Taylor Vinters (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 June 2003
    ...there was clearly a loss flowing from the negligence because his clients embarked on the whole process of refinancing via UCBMiddleton v Steeds Hudson [1998] FLR 738, one of the cases relied on below. There is no authority of which I am aware which supports the proposition that it is neglig......
1 books & journal articles
  • Restitution, Rectification, and Mitigation: Negligent Solicitors and Wills, Again
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 65-3, May 2002
    • 1 May 2002
    ...Solicitors, Disappointed Beneficiaries and the Tortious Duty toAdvise on Tax Avoidance’ (1998) 14 PN 107. cp Middleton vSteeds Hudson [1998] 1 FLR 738(Johnson J). cf Hurlingham Estates vWilde (1997) 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 525 (Lightman J); on which see R.O’Connor, ‘The Duty of Solicitors to Give Ta......