COURTS BACK SURVEYOR IN ANOTHER MERRETT v BABB NEGLIGENCE CLAIM

摘要

Surveyors have claimed another significant victory after the courts dismissed a Merrett v Babb personal liability claim againsta professional formerly employed by an Essex-based practice, Walker & Company Surveyors Ltd. The derision handed down by the Southend County Court on 25 July 2014 in Mavis Russell v (1) Walker & Co (2) Robert Chisnall and others follows a similar ruling in February when the courts on that occasion dismissed a personal liability claim against former Ashdown Lyons surveyor, Fraser Maldoom, because the facts could not be reconciled with the milestone 2001 Court of Appeal derision in Merrett v Babb.