The search for redemption: surveyors’ liability for refinance loans

This article by Rachel Tandy was first published in Butterworths’ Journal of International Banking and Finance Law.

On 1 July 2016, the Court of Appeal gave a landmark judgment on the scope of surveyors’ liability in Tiuta International Ltd v De Villiers Surveyors Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 661. The effect of that judgment was to broaden the potential scope of such liability enormously.

In this article Rachel Tandy examines how the court arrived at that decision, and its wider implications.

To read the article in full, please see here.

This article forms part of an ongoing series being written by members of the Henderson Chambers Banking Finance and Consumer Credit group for the Butterworths’ Journal of International Banking and Finance Law.