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11 Jun 2009
C v W (2008) EWCA Civ 1459

Conditional Fee Agreements and Success Fees . A Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA) is an agreement whereby the solicitor and client decide to share the risk of the litigation by coming to a financial arrangement on the fees payable based ...

 
18 Feb 2009
QAYYUM ANSARI v NEW INDIA ASSURANCE LTD [2009] EWCA CIV 93

Material change of facts and change of risk. A property owner appealed against the judgment in favour of his insurers in respect of damage caused to his property by fire.   He had stated on his proposal form that the property ...

 
18 Feb 2009
NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY v (1) DUNLOP HAYWARDS (DHL) LTD (T/A DUNLOP HAYWOOD LORENZ) (2) COBBETTS (A FIRM )

Valuers' dishonesty not foreseeable by solicitors.  Nationwide Building Society lent £11.5 million for the purchase of a commercial property which had been fraudulently over valued by Dunlop Haywood Lorenz (the defendant valuers) by ...

 
11 Feb 2009
LAKER VENT ENGINEERING LIMITED v TEMPLETON INSURANCE LIMITED (2009) EWCA CIV 62

Material Non-Disclosure and Notification of Circumstances.   The failure of an Insured to disclose a material fact prior to policy renewal which induces that renewal usually gives insurers strong grounds to avoid the policy . ...

 
30 Jan 2009
DUNCAN DAVID BRUCE RUSHMER v MERVYN SMITH (T/A MERVYN E SMITH & CO) [ 2009 ] EWHC 94 (QB)

Negligent accountant saved by director.   An auditor who grossly overstated a company's profits in its accounts was not liable to the guarantor of the company's bank loan where the guarantor was the main ...

 

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