C - Contingent damage
7/7/20
HOLT v HOLLEY & STEER SOLICITORS [2020]EWCA Civ 851
Considers when damage was first suffered as a result of the failure of solicitors to obtain expert property valuation evidence for the purpose of matrimonial proceedings. The court rejected a submission that damage was purely contingent until the court had given judgment in May 2012. The damage was suffered when the claimant lost the ability to adduce the relevant evidence in March 2012. That had been more than 6 years before proceedings were started against the solicitors in April 2018, so the claim was time-barred.