Remedies for Breach

Question 0

Hadley v Baxendale (1854)

Answer 0

Liability arises from natural consequences if the contract; crankshaft case

Question 1

Robinson v Harman (1848)

Answer 1

So far as money can do it parties are to be put in the position they would have been had the breach not been committed

Question 2

Victoria Laundry v Newman (1949)

Answer 2

D could not claim for loss of profits on the lucrative deal as it was not within the party’s contemplation

Question 3

The Heron II (1969)

Answer 3

Sugar as delayed and could claim losses of profit had they sold on planned date (market crashed in price)

Question 4

Parsons v Uttley Ingham (1978)

Answer 4

Pigs died because of bad vent; Scarman felt Wagon Mound foreseeability to be used where as denning differentiated between economic and physical loss

Question 5

Chadlin v Hicks (1911)

Answer 5

Expectation loss interview high chance

Question 6

Allied Maples v Simmons & Simmons (1995)

Answer 6

Estimation only speculative so no claim

Question 7

Ruxley Electronics v Forsyth (1996) HL

Answer 7

Pool case only loss of amenity awarded as unreasonable to award recovery