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14 August 2008
Issue: 7334 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , Property , Banking
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Platform Funding Ltd v Bank of Scotland plc [2008] EWCA Civ 930, [2008] All ER (D) 422 (Jul)

The defendant valuer agreed to provide a valuation of a property but was misled by the borrower into inspecting a different property.

HELD Although there is a presumption that those who provide professional services normally do no more than undertake to exercise the degree of care and skill to be expected of a competent professional in the relevant field, there is nothing to prevent them from assuming an unqualified obligation in relation to particular aspects of their work. It requires special facts or clear language to impose an obligation stricter than that of reasonable care. A professional will not readily be supposed to undertake to achieve a guaranteed result. If he is undertaking with care that which he was retained or instructed to do, he will not readily be found to have nevertheless warranted to be responsible for a misfortune caused by the fraud of another.

Issue: 7334 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , Property , Banking
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

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