Murphy v Brentwood District Council [1991] 1 AC 398. ... Bailii England and Wales Citing: Overruled – Anns and Others v Merton London Borough Council HL 12-May-1977 Murphy v Brentwood District Council [1991] UKHL 2, [1991] 1 AC 398 was a judicial decision of the House of Lords in relation to recovery for pure economic loss in tort. Brentwood District Council referred the plans to qualified structural engineers. In the case of Murphy v Brentwood, the initial hearing decided that the Councils engineers, although chosen with due care had not carefully checked and approved inadequate foundations. Judgement for the case Murphy v Brentwood DC. This article revisits the principles established in Murphy v Brentwood and considers the circumstances in which building control can be held liable for negligently signing off on defective plans, which has caused a loss to construction professionals. Murphy v Brentwood [1991] UKHL 2. He had bought the house from its builders. In Murphy v Brentwood the claimant purchased a property which transpired to be built on defective foundations. Those builders had employed civil engineers to design the foundations. 36 and 38 Two of these houses, nos. The claimant appellant was a house owner. Two houses constructed on landfill required a concrete raft foundation. Murphy v Brentwood District Council - Designing Buildings Wiki - Share your construction industry knowledge. Faulty foundations damaged the building, causing the owner a substantial loss. The fear is the courts would be flooded with the same negligent act, where both court administration and financial burden on the defendant uncontrollable and become out of control. The plans for the raft were submitted to Brentwood District Council for approval. Overturning Anns v Merton LBC, in Murphy v Brentwood DC the House of Lords held that a local authority does not owe the future owners of a building a duty to take reasonable care to avoid causing them pure economic loss.. Facts. Anns v Merton Overruled. The facts are that over a period ending in 1969 a concern called ABC Homes constructed an estate of 160 dwelling houses on a site in Brentwood. P bought a house that turned out to be faulty. The Council were held liable to … Murphy v. The Minister for Health & Ors [1987] IEHC 52 (10 December 1987) Murphy v The Personal Insolvency Acts 2012 to 2015 (Approved) [2020] IEHC 506 (12 October 2020) Murphy v The Revenue Commissioners & Anor [2020] IECA 36 (27 February 2020) Murphy v The Revenue Commissioners (Approved) [2020] IEHC 295 (04 June 2020) Murphy v. Murphy v Brentwood had stressed as a matter of policy the unacceptability of imposing such liability on builders, local authorities or manufactures. 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