Surveyor Negligence - Finding an expert
“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.” Take a bow, Konrad Lorenz!
I spent far too long yesterday looking for an expert to help me with a case. On the way home on the train, I spotted Lorenz’ words in the newspaper. How fitting.
Rebecca had been looking for a house in the Cambridge area and had set her heart on a quaint three-bed cottage. Naturally, she employed a surveyor to inspect the property before buying it. The agreement between Rebecca and the surveyor was for him to report on the state of the property, detailing any defects, structural issues and an estimated cost of repairing any defects. Rebecca wanted peace of mind in buying an old property and if there were significant problems with her dream home she envisaged using the report to renegotiate the price or pull out. When she received the report, Rebecca was delighted to find there were no major concerns. Based on this report, she went ahead and brought the property.
