Cripps Harries Hall

David Morgan

Solicitor

David Morgan specialises in professional negligence, contractual disputes and personal injury.

Expertise

  • Professional negligence
  • Litigation
  • Contractual claims
  • Personal accident
  • Disputes

Memberships

  • Professional Negligence Lawyers Association

Career

  • Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2008
  • Trainee Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2006
  • Acting against a firm of surveyors relating to the negligent valuation of a residential property where the surveyors had failed to identify the correct structure resulting in the over-valuation of the property at the time of the client's purchase.
  • Acting against a mortgage lender relating to the repossession sale of the client's residential property at an undervalue estimated to be in the region of £130,000.
  • Acting for a national charity against a nationally recognised firm of surveyors for negligent planning advice and applications over the course of two years in relation to one of the charity's properties.
  • Acting against a firm of solicitors in relation to advice concerning the terms of a conditional contract which the client entered into with a developer. The developer was in fact able to withdraw at its absolute discretion.
  • Acting against a firm of conveyancing solicitors who failed to identify that the property which the client purchased lacked building regulations approval for several outbuildings.
Legal updates view all
+ Professional negligence legal update - A solicitor's duty to keep advice under review? - March 2012
Solicitors and their archiving staff will breathe a sigh of relief following the professional negligence case of Shepherd Construction Ltd v Pinsent Masons LLP [2012] EWHC 43 (TCC), which confirms that there is not normally a general retainer to keep past advice under review.
21/03/2012
+ Professional negligence update - March 2012
Is expert evidence necessary for a professional negligence claim?
12/03/2012
+ Professional negligence - Retrospective market valuations for a residential property - February 2012
The professional negligence case of (1) Paratus AMC Ltd (2) RMAC 2005 NS1 PLC v Countrywide Surveyors Ltd [2011] EWHC 3307 (Ch) required the court to weigh up several expert valuations, which were relied upon by the opposing parties, for a residential property.
13/02/2012
+ Professional negligence update - Solicitors duty to advise... for free? - February 2012
The recent professional negligence case of Padden v Bevan Ashford Solicitors [2011] EWCA CIV 1616 is likely to cause a stir amongst solicitors in relation to the pitfalls of not advising properly, even with the best of intentions and when the client is not charged.
01/02/2012
+ Professional negligence update - Limitation: claim against solicitors relating to purchase of a property - January 2012
Limitation: claim against solicitors relating to purchase of a property
19/01/2012
+ Professional negligence update - January 2012
Measure of loss on failure to advise on planning conditions
09/01/2012
+ Professional negligence update - Do you have instructions to settle? - December 2011
The case of Amalgamated Metal Corp Plc v Wragge & Co (A Firm) [2011] EWHC 887 (Comm) is a cautionary tale of the risks of settling a case without ensuring that you have firm instructions from the client (and evidence of those instructions).
08/12/2011
+ Professional negligence - Legal update - November 2011
Surveyors held liable for £18m overvaluation
17/11/2011
+ Professional negligence update - November 2011
Scope of a retainer in property transactions did not extend to commercial advice about the transactions
04/11/2011
+ Professional negligence update - October 2011
Solicitors should seek clarification if an expert report is unclear
21/10/2011
+ Professional negligence update - October 2011
Should solicitors obtain medical evidence whenever they are instructed by an elderly client? That would be 'insulting and unnecessary'
21/10/2011
+ Professional negligence update - August 2011
Valuer's duty of care to buy to let purchaser. Reliance upon counsel's advice. Explaining CFA's
01/08/2011

Contact details

T:
+44 (0)1892 506 048
F:
+44 (0)1892 598 248
E:
david.morgan@crippslaw.com

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