Uzinterimpex JSC v Standard Bank Plc
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Sir Anthony Clarke MR,Laws,Moore-Bick L JJ. |
| Judgment Date | 15 July 2008 |
| Neutral Citation | [2008] EWCA Civ 819 |
| Date | 15 July 2008 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
Court of Appeal
Before Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Laws and and Lord Justice Moore-Bick
Uzinterimpex JSC
and
Standard Bank plc
Failure to mitigate is new intervening cause
In a claim in conversion for wrongful interference with goods, the claimant's failure to mitigate the loss was a new intervening cause, breaking the link between the original wrongdoing and and the continuing loss, which released the wrongdoer from liability for subsequent loss after that failure.
The Court of Appeal so held, dismissing the appeal of the claimant seller, Uzinterimpex JSC, against Mr Justice David SteelUNK ((2007) 2 Lloyd's Rep 187) who gave judgment for Uzinterimpex against the defendant, Standard Bank plc, and awarded damages of US$916,267.36 for conversion only up to the date when the seller failed to mitigate its loss.
Mr Jeffrey Gruder, QC and Ms Philippa Hopkins for Uzinterimpex; Mr Stephen Phillips, QC and Mr Michael Lazarus for the bank.
LORD JUSTICE MOORE -BICK said that the claim arose out of a contract for the sale of cotton by Uzinterimpex, an Uzbek state company, to an English cotton trader, A. Meredith Jones...
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