From: Andrew Tettenborn <a.m.tettenborn@swansea.ac.uk>
To: HOGG Martin <Martin.Hogg@ed.ac.uk>
Ken Oliphant <Ken.Oliphant@bristol.ac.uk>
obligations@uwo.ca
CC: William Swadling <william.swadling@law.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 10/06/2016 08:37:31 UTC
Subject: Re: Art Expert Liability Cases
Try these for size:

Lord Coleridge v Sotheby's [2012] EWHC 370 (Ch)
Thomson v Christie Manson & Woods Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 555; [2005] P.N.L.R. 38
Luxmoore-May v Messenger May Baverstock [1990] 1 W.L.R. 1009

All were argued in tort, though in some cases there may have been concurrent liability.

Andrew


On 10/06/16 09:20, HOGG Martin wrote:
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 




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