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Manchester Building Society v. Grant Thornton LLP

[2021] UKSC 20; [2022] AC 783
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtSupreme Court of the United Kingdom
Year2022
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

The scope of the duty of care owed by a professional adviser, and hence the extent of recoverable loss, is determined by the purpose of the duty objectively ascertained from the reason the advice was given; the SAAMCO 'advice'/'information' distinction is not a rigid binary rule and the SAAMCO counterfactual is only a cross-check.

Area of Law

General

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