The Law of Contract Damages

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. A Brief Introduction to the Contract Damages Award

PART 2: TYPES OF COMPLAINT

Chapter 2. Pure Services: Non-Supply/Defective Supply/Delayed Supply

Chapter 3. Misadvice (Especially Professional Negligence) and Contractual Misstatement

Chapter 4. Property Non-Delivery, Destruction and Defects (Damage, Sale, Construction, Misrepair)

Chapter 5. Refusal/Failure to Accept Performance

Chapter 6. Temporary Loss of Use of the Claimant's Property

Chapter 7. Loss of Use of Money, Including Obligations to Pay

Chapter 8. Claims by a Tenant or Hirer

Chapter 9. Warranties and Indemnities

Chapter 10. Negative Covenants

PART 3: FACTUAL CAUSATION AND ACTUAL LOSS

Chapter 11. Introduction to Factual Causation

Chapter 12. The Breach Position: Proving What Actually Happened

Chapter 13. The Non-Breach Position: Proving What Would Have Happened but for the Breach

PART 4: LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF REMOTENESS, MITIGATION AND LEGAL CAUSATION

Chapter 14. Remoteness and Scope of Duty

Chapter 15. Legal Causation and Mitigation and the Breach Position

Chapter 16. Intervening Acts and Events by Category

Chapter 17. The Date of Assessment

PART 5: PARTICULAR TYPES OF LOSS REQUIRING SEPARATE EXAMINATION

Chapter 18. Proving Business Loss: Revenue, Profit and Costs

Chapter 19. Non-Pecuniary Loss

Chapter 20. Indemnity for Liability to Third Parties and Compensation for Litigation Costs

PART 6: OTHER MATTERS

Chapter 21. Third Parties and Loss

Chapter 22. Wrotham Park Hypothetical Bargain Damages

Chapter 23. Non-Compensatory Damages

Chapter 24. Concurrent Claims