UK

Liability of a Quantity Surveyor: What happens when the numbers go wrong?

Rachel Ansell QC and Lynne McCafferty

June 2017

A paper presented to the Society of Construction Law at meetings in London on 7th March and Manchester on 19th September 2016

This paper reviews a number of  cases involving quantity surveyors and considers four recent lines of authority dealing with pre-construction and construction phase services (cost estimates); construction; construction phase services (valuation and cost monitoring) and services provided away from or outside the project.