Commercial RemediesCompensation in Contract and Tort | Cases

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Contractual damages

Compensatory principle

Robinson v Harman (1849) 1 Exch 850, 855

Remoteness

Hadley v Baxendale (1854) 9 Exch 341

The Achilleas [2008] UKHL 48, [2009] AC 61

Supershield Ltd v Siemens Building Technologies FE Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 7

Wellesley Partners LLP v Withers LLP [2015] EWCA Civ 146, [2016] 2 WLR 1351

Attorney General of the Virgin Islands v Global Water Associates Ltd [2020] UKPC 18

Date of assessment

Hooper v Oates [2013] EWCA Civ 91

Radford v De Froberville [1977] 1 WLR 1262

Johnson v Agnew [1980] AC 367

Mitigation

British Westinghouse v Underground Electric Railways [1912] AC 673

The Golden Victory [2007] 2 AC 353

Fulton Shipping Inc v Globalia Business Travel SAU [2017] UKSC 43, [2017] 1 WLR 2581

Cost of Cure

Radford v De Froberville [1977] 1 WLR 1262

Ruxley Electronics v Forsyth [1996] AC 344

Hooper v Oates [2013] EWCA Civ 91

Tabcorp Holdings Ltd v Bowen Investments Pty Ltd (2009) 236 CLR 272

Bacciottini v Gotelee [2016] EWCA Civ 170

Coles v Hetherton [2013] EWCA Civ 1704; [2015] 1 WLR 160

Difference in market value

William Bros Ltd v Aguis Ltd [1914] AC 510

Slater v Hoyle & Smith Ltd [1920] 2 KB 11

Clark v Macourt [2013] HCA 56 (Australian case)

Wertheim v Chicoutimi Pulp Co [1911] AC 301

Bence Graphics v Fasson UK Ltd [1998] QB 87

Euro-Asian Oil SA v Credit Suisse AG [2018] EWCA Civ 1720

MDW Holdings Ltd v Norvill [2022] EWCA Civ 883

Loss of sub-sale

R & H Hall Ltd v W H Pim Jr & Co Ltd (1928) 30 Lloyd’s L. Rep 159

Hire costs

The Mediana [1900] AC 113

Dimond v Lovell [2002] 1 AC 384

Claimant’s liability to third party

Armstead v RSA [2024] UKSC 6

Tortious damages

Principle

Livingstone v Rawyards Coal (1880) LR 5 App Cas 25

Remoteness

The Wagon Mound [1961] AC 388

SAAMCO [1997] AC 191

Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2021] UKSC 20

Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21, [2022] AC 852

Collateral benefit

Swynson v Lowick Rose LLP [2017] UKSC 32; [2017] 2 WLR 1161

Damages for conversion

IBL Ltd v Coussens [1991] 2 All ER 133

Solloway v McLaughlin [1938] AC 247

Kuwait Airways v Iraqi Airways (Nos 4 & 5) [2002] 2 AC 883