Cases - Whitley (FG) & Sons Ltd v Thomas Bickerton

Record details

Name

Whitley (FG) & Sons Ltd v Thomas Bickerton

Date

[1993]

Citation

1 EGLR 139

Keywords

Negligence in valuations and surveys

Summary

The defendant surveyor, who had been representing a client in an attempt to secure planning permission for mineral extraction, negligently failed to appeal in time against a refusal of planning permission. The surveyor was held liable for the difference between what the site was worth, at the moment when it became too late to appeal, and what it would then have been worth if an appeal had been lodged in time.