Building Law Monthly
Liability of surveyor in connection with recently rebuilt property
In Hart v Large [2020] EWHC 985 (TCC) Mr Roger ter Haar QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, held that the defendant
surveyor had been negligent when carrying out a homebuyer’s report on a recently rebuilt property. He gave particular content
to the duty of a surveyor when surveying a recently rebuilt property and concluded that the defendant had been negligent in
failing to draw to the attention of the claimants the need to obtain a Professional Consultant’s Certificate to give them
protection in the event of there being defects in the property. He held that the defendant was liable for the difference between
the value of the property without defects and the property as it was with all the defects which in fact existed.