From: HOGG Martin <Martin.Hogg@ed.ac.uk>
To: Ken Oliphant <Ken.Oliphant@bristol.ac.uk>
obligations@uwo.ca
CC: William Swadling <william.swadling@law.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 10/06/2016 08:20:21 UTC
Subject: Re: Art Expert Liability Cases
Attachments: Edinburgh University charitable status
Not strictly artwork, but Sabine v Lyon and Turnbull [2012] CSOH 178 is about auctioneers who were sued in respect of the valuation of an antique table (it turned out to be fake). I wrote about the case in the Edinburgh Law Review: "A Regency Drama: Misrepresentation by Appearance,, Reduction and Restitutio in Integrum" (2013) EdinLR 256.

Best wishes,

Martin

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On 10 Jun 2016, at 8:59 am, Ken Oliphant <Ken.Oliphant@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

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

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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