Cases - Bishop v Watson, Watson and Scoles
Record details
- Name
- Bishop v Watson, Watson and Scoles
- Date
- (1972)
- Citation
- 224 EG 1881
- Legislation
- Keywords
- Negligence in valuations and surveys
- Summary
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In an action by the purchasers of a flat alleging negligence in the course of a visual inspection and report on the property, the court held that a surveyor who has agreed to make a visual survey:
'... is under no obligation to uncover those parts of the building where the flashings or damp-proof courses should be found to see if they are there and, if they are, whether they are adequate ... [E]vidence that the building is of cavity construction is not itself ground for suspecting that the safeguards essential to that mode of construction have been omitted or botched.'