Cases - Bere v Slades

Record details

Name

Bere v Slades

Date

[1989]

Citation

2 EGLR 160

Legislation

Civil Procedure Rules

Keywords

Negligence in valuations and surveys

Summary

The judge described the duty of a surveyor carrying out a mortgage valuation as 'not to miss obvious defects or defects which are observable by careful visual examination'. The defendant was therefore not negligent in failing to discover that certain walls were of non-standard and unstable construction, since this could not have been detected by a visual surface examination of the property.