24 Sep 2021 [2021] EWHC 2400 (Comm), QBD (Judge Pelling QC sitting as judge of the High Court)
19 Jul 2022 [2022] EWCA Civ 970; [2023] 4 WLR 56; [2023] 2 All ER 842; [2023] 1 All ER (Comm) 1047; [2022] WLR(D) 315, CA (King, Popplewell, Carr, LJJ)
NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Scope of duty — Developers purchasing high-value listed properties for development purposes — Solicitors failing to advise purchasers of existence of extra-high voltage electric cables running under development sites — Developers discovering cables after acquisition — Developers asking solicitor to advise as to utility companies’ statutory rights of access — Solicitor responding but not advising as to potential rights and remedies against power network — Whether solicitors assuming duty of care to advise developers — Whether solicitors’ duty of care extending to duty to advise as to rights and remedies — Whether scope of duty determined by reasonably competent solicitor’s state of mind — Whether breach of duty
[2022] EWCA Civ 970; [2023] 4 WLR 56; [2023] 2 All ER 842; [2023] 1 All ER (Comm) 1047; [2022] WLR(D) 315, CA
Spire Property Development LLP v Withers LLP [2021] EWHC 2400 (Comm), QBD
Decision of Judge Pelling QC sitting as a judge of the Queen’s Bench Division reversed in part
Spire Property Development LLP v Withers LLP [2022] EWCA Civ 970; [2023] 4 WLR 56; [2023] 2 All ER 842; [2023] 1 All ER (Comm) 1047; [2022] WLR(D) 315, CA
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