Portman Building Society v Bevan Ashford (A Firm) and Others
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 2000 |
| Date | 2000 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
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20 cases
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Camerata Property Inc. v Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd
...in South Australia Asset Management v York Montague ( "SAAMCO") [1997] AC 191 and also on the judgment of Otton LJ in Portman Building Society v Bevan Ashford [2000] 1 EGLR 81 in support of his submission that, even if the court accepted that Credit Suisse was negligent, in that the advice ......
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Hughes-Holland v BPE Solicitors and another
...52 For the same reason, I consider that the Court of Appeal was wrong to apply the reasoning in Steggles Palmer in Portman Building Society v Bevan Ashford (a firm) [2000] PNLR 344, where the facts were indistinguishable. Otton LJ, delivering the leading judgment, declined to ask himself wh......
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Camerata Property Inc. v Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd [QBD (Comm)]
...RichardsUNK [2004] EWCA Civ 266; [2004] PNLR 35. Johnson v Gore Wood & CoELR [2002] 2 AC 1. Portman Building Society v Bevan AshfordUNK [2000] 1 EGLR 81. R v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, ex parte Spath Holme LtdELR [2001] 2 AC 349. R&B Customs Brokers C......
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Haugesund Kommune v Depfa ACS Bank
...from the advance.” That approach was approved and applied by the Court of Appeal on indistinguishable facts in Portman Building Society v Bevan Ashford (a firm) and Others [2000] PNLR 354. Again the trial judge had held that had the lender known what it should have been told, it would have ......
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2 firm's commentaries
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SAAMCO Revisited - What Losses Will A Negligent Professional Be Liable For?
...v Fancy & Jackson (a firm) [1997] 4 All ER 582) and the Court of Appeal case Portman Building Society v Bevan Ashford (a firm) [2000] PNLR 344, the claimant clients succeeded on their claims for all losses flowing from a transaction where they asserted the information sought from the de......
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Professional advisors not liable for client’s poor commercial judgment
...title Bristol and West Building Society v Fancy & Jackson (a firm) [1997] 4 All ER 582) and Portman Building Society v Bevan Ashford [2000] P.N.L.R. 344 have previously been seen as creating an exception to the SAAMCO principle, whereby an advisor (often a conveyancer) would be liable for t......