From: Ken Oliphant <Ken.Oliphant@bristol.ac.uk>
To: William Swadling <william.swadling@law.ox.ac.uk>
CC: obligations@uwo.ca
Date: 10/06/2016 07:58:44 UTC
Subject: Re: Art Expert Liability Cases
There was a recent one on the sale of a Caravaggio that the seller had been informed by Sotheby's was a copy: Thwaytes v Sotheby’s [2015] EWHC 36 (Ch)

Sotheby's won.

Ken

Ken Oliphant
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On 10 June 2016 at 08:48, William Swadling <william.swadling@law.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

A German colleague with poor access to common law resources is looking for common law cases of art experts being sued in tort (not contract) for wrong valuations of artwork which has caused loss to either holders of the artwork or a purchaser therefrom.  I’m not a tort lawyer, so don’t have the cases at my fingertips.  Any suggestions?

Bill Swadling