Law of contract damages

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Introduction: A brief introduction to the contract damage award -- Part 2. Types of complaint: Pure services : non-supply/defective supply/delayed supply -- Misadvice (especially professional negligence) and contractual misstatement -- Property non-delivery, destruction and defects (damage, sale, construction, misrepair) -- Refusal/failure to accept performance -- Temporary loss of use of the claimant's property -- Loss of use of money, including obligations to pay -- Claims by a tenant or hirer -- Warranties and indemnities -- Negative covenants -- Part 3. Factual causation and actual loss: The breach position : proving what actually happened -- The non-breach position : proving what would have happened but for the breach -- Part 4. Legal principles of remoteness, mitigation and legal causation: Remoteness and scope of duty -- Legal causation and mitigation and the breach position -- Intervening acts and events by category -- The date of assessment -- Part 5. Particular types of loss requiring separate examination: Proving business loss : revenue, profit and costs -- Non-pecuniary loss -- Indemnity for liability to third parties and compensation for litigation costs -- Part 6. Other matters: Third parties and loss -- Wrotham Park hypothetical bargain damages -- Non-compensatory damages -- Concurrent claims.