Assessment of Damages in UK Law

  • Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Febrero 1972
    ... ... of £25,000 paid into Court by the Appellants by way of exemplary damages be paid out of Court to the First Respondent, together with accrued ... should not allow the respect which is traditionally paid to an assessment of damages by a jury to prevent me from seeing that the weapon is used ... ...
  • Allied Maples Group Ltd v Simmons & Simmons
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Mayo 1995
    ... ... to suffer substantial losses which they sought to recover as damages from the Defendants ... 6 Prior to 1989, the ... decided on a balance of probability, but rather on the court's assessment, often expressed in percentage terms, of the risk eventuating or the ... ...
  • Malik and Mahmud v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Junio 1997
    ... ... So in March 1992 they sought to prove for damages in the winding up of B.C.C.I. The liquidators rejected this "stigma" head ... of obtaining alternative employment is to be excluded from an assessment of damages for wrongful dismissal: see, for instance, O'Laoire v. Jackel ... ...
  • Czarnikow Ltd v Koufos (Heron II)
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Octubre 1967
    ... ... that fall in market value can be taken into account in assessing damages in this case ... 4 McNair J., following the ... 58 I can see no fault, therefore, in the assessment of the damages in the present case unless there is some rule of law that ... ...
  • British Transport Commission v Gourley
    • House of Lords
    • 08 Diciembre 1955
    ... ... of the Appellants' servants, and brought his action to recover damages ... 2 The trial Judge awarded him £9,000 for pain and suffering and ... Judge, at the request of the Appellants, made an alternative assessment of £6,695, which represented the sum he would have awarded if he ought to ... ...
  • Golden Strait Corporation v Nippon Yusen Kubishika Kaisha (the "Golden Victory")
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Marzo 2007
    ... ... 1 The issue in this appeal concerns the assessment of damages for loss of charter hire recoverable by a shipowner where a ... ...
  • Pickett v British Rail Engineering Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Noviembre 1978
    ... ... November 1977 so far as regards the words "increasing the award of damages to the sum of £17,410.14 (Seventeen thousand four hundred and ten pounds ... with the majority opinions expressed in this House an assessment may be made of the damages which ought to be awarded in respect of loss of ... ...
  • Jobling v Associated Dairies Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Junio 1981
    ... ... 1 The question raised by this appeal is whether in assessing damages for personal injury in respect of loss of earnings, account should be ... 15 This appeal relates to the assessment of damages where a party has been injured by another's tort, but, before ... ...
  • Morris-Garner and another v One Step (Support) Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 18 Abril 2018
    ... ... This appeal raises an important question in relation to the law of damages: in what circumstances can damages for breach of contract be assessed by ... Further, the assessment of a reasonable price might involve consideration of several ... ...
  • Wells v Wells
    • House of Lords
    • 16 Julio 1998
    ... ... same question, namely, the correct method of calculating lump sum damages for the loss of future earnings and the cost of future care. Negligence ... the basis of the rate of return available on I.L.G.S., then an assessment of the average rate of return at the relevant date presents no problem ... ...
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