Propell National Valuers (WA) Pty Ltd v Australian Executor Trustees Limited

• 1. Trade Practices
  2. › Misleading or deceptive conduct
  3. › Valuation of property
  4. › Whether subsequent comparable sales evidence admissible to determine if valuation misleading or deceptive
  5. › Distinction between determining true market value and assessing competency of valuation
  6. › Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), s 52
• 1. Tort
  2. › Negligence
  3. › Duty of care
  4. › Valuers
  5. › Personal liability of employee valuer to third-party lender
  6. › Whether principles in Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd applicable in Australia
  7. › Whether employee who prepared and signed valuation owed personal duty of care
• 1. Trade Practices
  2. › Accessorial liability
  3. › Section 75B
  4. › Knowledge required of accessory to contravention of s 52
  5. › Whether knowledge that conduct was misleading or deceptive required
  6. › Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), ss 52, 75B
• 1. Trusts
  2. › Trustee's standing to sue
  3. › Whether trustee entitled to commence proceedings for losses to trust funds
  4. › Whether trustee required to sue in capacity as trustee

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