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24 July 2015
Issue: 7662 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Negligence

Luffeorm Ltd v Kitsons LLP [2015] Lexis Citation 13, [2015] All ER (D) 150 (Jul)

Where defendant solicitors acting for the claimant purchasers of a premises were sued for negligence, the Queen’s Bench Division held that, although they had been negligent in failing to draw the absence of any covenant in restraint of trade to the claimant’s attention such a failure had not caused the claimants loss.

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