Consequential Loss in UK Law

  • Smith New Court Securities Ltd v Scrimgeour Vickers (Asset Management) Ltd and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 21 November 1996
    ... ... at a loss of £11,353,220. It was not suggested at the trial that Smith's retention ... , always bearing in mind that no element in the consequential position can be regarded as attributable loss and damage if it be too ... ...
  • Junior Books Ltd v Veitchi Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 July 1982
    ... ... circumstances averred by the respondents be liable for the economic loss caused to them by having to replace the floor ... 2 ... for the cost of such replacement, together with certain consequential loss which they say they will suffer while the work of replacement is ... ...
  • Roberts v Johnstone
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 March 1988
    ... ... of £334,769.88, damages in respect of personal injuries and consequential loss sustained by the infant plaintiff ... 2 The plaintiff was born on ... ...
  • Morris-Garner and another v One Step (Support) Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 18 April 2018
    ... ... every type of compensatory damages which exceed the actual financial loss to the claimant, and, on the other hand, damages awarded in lieu of ... ; [2011] QB 477 , para 22: “Some claims for consequential loss are capable of being established with precision (for example, ... ...
  • Downs v Chappell
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 April 1996
    ... ... that the Plaintiffs had failed to prove that they had suffered any loss as a result of the Defendants' torts. He therefore gave judgment for the ... bought, the character of their claim is really a claim for consequential loss. They have suffered a consequential loss through having bought a ... ...
  • Farley v Skinner (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 October 2001
    ... ... the house and not move out and sell, I would question whether any loss he thereafter suffers, at least in the ordinary case, can be laid at the ... the breach of contract by the builders had not caused any consequential loss to the pool owner. He had simply been deprived of the benefit of a ... ...
  • Alfred McAlpine Construction Ltd v Panatown Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ... ... Panatown has suffered no loss. UIPL owns a defective building, which requires a significant expenditure ... I see no reason why consequential losses should not also be recoverable under this exception where such loss ... ...
  • Parry v Cleaver
    • House of Lords
    • 05 February 1969
    ... ... How are damages for his financial loss to be assessed? In particular how is the disablement pension to be dealt ... he claimed damages for personal injuries and for the "consequential loss and damage" which he had sustained as a result of having been knocked ... ...
  • Sempra Metals (formerly Metallgesellschaft Ltd) v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • House of Lords
    • 18 July 2007
    ... ... In 1952, however, it was recognised that loss due to late payment might be recoverable if it constituted special damage ... than the money he has received" did no more than exclude any consequential loss. The fact that the judgment went on to refer to Dutch v Warren ... ...
  • Lagden v O'Connor
    • House of Lords
    • 04 December 2003
    ... ... driver include, in addition to the cost of repairs, damages for loss of use of the damaged car. In the ordinary course the reasonable cost of ... party attempts by some course of action to reduce the consequential loss he has suffered or will suffer if nothing is done. If he succeeds in ... ...
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