Measure of Damages in UK Law

  • 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 ... be in breach of contract and the question at issue was the proper measure of damages. In fact the shaft was sent as a pattern for a new shaft and ... ...
  • Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd v Forsyth
    • House of Lords
    • 29 Junio 1995
    ... ... Lord Bridge of Harwich My Lords, ... 3 Damages for breach of contract must reflect, as accurately as the circumstances ... Given this basic principle, the court, in assessing the measure of the claimant's loss has ultimately to determine a question of fact, ... ...
  • Smith New Court Securities Ltd v Scrimgeour Vickers (Asset Management) Ltd and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Noviembre 1996
    ... ... 2 The damages issue which is the subject-matter of the appeal raises for decision for e first time in your Lordships' House the question of the correct measure of damages where a plaintiff has acquired property in reliance on a ... ...
  • South Australian Asset Management Corporation v York Montague Ltd ; United Bank of Kuwait Plc v Prudential Property Services Ltd ; Nykredit Mortgage Bank Plc v Edward Erdman Group Ltd (Formerly Edward Erdman an Unlimited Company)
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Junio 1996
    ... ... at the Bar, has assumed that the case is about the correct measure of damages for the loss which the lender has suffered. The Court of Appeal ... ...
  • Bristol and West Building Society v Mothew
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 Julio 1996
    ... ... 16 It was common ground below that no damages would be recoverable at common law for breach of contract or tort unless ... This is usually treated as a question of the measure of damages rather than causation, and for convenience I shall so treat it ... ...
  • Jaggard v Sawyer
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 Julio 1994
    ... ... acts of trespass and breaches of covenant and awarded her damages in lieu. The plaintiff says the judge should have granted injunctions ... It does not appear to have been contemplated that the measure of damage could be based on the reasonable fee which the plaintiff could ... ...
  • 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 ... , and in addition any loss of goodwill was inherently difficult to measure ... 21 Christopher Clarke LJ observed that the amount taken as ... ...
  • Watts v Morrow
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 Julio 1991
    ... ... the trial liability was in issue but the defendant's appeal is on damages only. He contends, firstly, that the judge was wrong in law to award ... 26 The judge accepted the evidence of the plaintiffs. As to the measure of damages for the consequences of the negligent advice, the judge ... ...
  • 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 ... In this way, the measure of damages would be commensurate with, and not go beyond, the scope of the ... ...
  • Transfield Shipping Inc. v Mercator Shipping Inc. (The Achilleas)
    • House of Lords
    • 09 Julio 2008
    ... ... 5 The owners claimed damages for the loss of the difference between the original rate and the reduced ... which the valuer is liable must precede any consideration of the measure of damages." ... 15 In other words, ... ...
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