Loss of Opportunity in UK Law

  • Malik and Mahmud v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA
    • House of Lords
    • 12 June 1997
    ... ... Thousands of people around the world suffered loss. Depositors lost their money, employees lost their jobs. Two employees who ... actor financial loss, for two reasons: first, through loss of opportunity to enhance his professional reputation and, secondly, his absence from the ... ...
  • Gregg v Scott
    • House of Lords
    • 27 January 2005
    ... ... It would be irrational and indefensible. The loss of a 45% prospect of recovery is just as much a real loss for a patient as ... Loss of an opportunity or chance as actionable damage ... 15 It is ... ...
  • Walford and Others v Miles and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 23 January 1992
    ... ... 1 I have had the opportunity of considering in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned ... any damages to which the Walfords might be entitled for the alleged loss of opportunity of completing the sale and purchase of the shares and ... ...
  • Perry v Raleys Solicitors
    • Supreme Court
    • 13 February 2019
    ... ... failure to give him appropriate advice, he had lost the opportunity to claim a Services Award, in respect of all of the six tasks, which he ... denied that any breach (if proved) would have caused Mr Perry any loss. They alleged also that Mr Perry's claim against them was statute barred ... ...
  • Target Holdings Ltd v Redferns
    • House of Lords
    • 20 July 1995
    ... ... If that had happened, even on ordinary principles of causation the loss to Target caused by the breach of trust was the total amount wrongly paid ... lost as a result of the breach, i.e., the plaintiff's loss of opportunity. The plaintiff's actual loss as a consequence of the breach is to be ... ...
  • AIB Group (UK) Plc v Mark Redler & Company Solicitors
    • Supreme Court
    • 05 November 2014
    ... ... their liability is limited to the amount by which the bank suffered loss by comparison with its position if the solicitors had done as they should, ... lost as a result of the breach, ie, the plaintiff's loss of opportunity. The plaintiff's actual loss as a consequence of the breach is to be ... ...
  • R (Faulkner) v Secretary of State for Justice
    • Supreme Court
    • 01 May 2013
    ... ... The obligation to provide an opportunity for such a determination arose under article 5(4) ... 9 In ... Damages should not be awarded merely for the loss of a chance of earlier release. 11. Nor should ... ...
  • D v East Berkshire Community NHS Trust and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 2003
    ... ... ) a father and his daughter claim for psychiatric injury and financial loss resulting from unfounded allegations that the father might have sexually ... that all the interested parties should work together, the opportunity for conflict between parents and the professional advisers may be far ... ...
  • Rees v Darlington Memorial Hospital NHS Trust
    • House of Lords
    • 16 October 2003
    ... ... & Son Ltd [1971] 1 QB 337 , some of us thought that economic loss ought not to be put on one pair of shoulders, but spread among all the ... , has been denied, through the negligence of another, the opportunity to live her life in the way that she wished and planned. I do not think ... ...
  • Esso Petroleum Company Ltd v Mardon
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 06 February 1976
    ... ... most strongly that this does genuinely represent a first-class opportunity of gaining representation in the centre of Southport". On that ... all outgoings, such as rent, wages and so forth, there was a net loss of £5,800. The position was so serious that Mr. Mardon felt he could not ... ...
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