BLAW 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Misrepresentation, Santa Barbara City College
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Minister encouraged private developers to buy land sites and build skyscrapers. On the basis of the plan ss bought land with a view to development. Ss failed to establish that m made the representations with the intention of inducing developers to act in reliance on the representations. A asks for or receives info from b. A asks b for information, and then gives that info to c. B only gives info to a, not c. C only asks for info from a, not b. Facts: esanda wants to know if it should lend money to excel-backed companies. Excel provides esanda with an audit (done by pmh) Esanda sues pmh (which it never spoke with) for the bad audit. Decision pmh owed no duty to esanda. Mere knowledge that someone might see the advice and act on it is not enough. You need heightened reasonableness of reliance test.
