The aim of the expectation measure award of damages for breach of contract is to place the claimant, so far as money can do it, in the position they would have been in had the contract been properly performed. Claimants are therefore able to recover damages in respect of the loss of gains which they have been deprived of by the breach. In the leading authority, [ case ], Parke B stated: The rule of the common law is, that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation, with respect to damages, as if the contract had been performed.
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Robinson v Harman (1848) 1 Ex 850
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The aim of the expectation measure award of damages for breach of contract is to place the claimant, so far as money can do it, in the position they would have been in had the contract been properly performed. Claimants are therefore able to recover damages in respect of the loss of gains which they have been deprived of by the breach. In the leading authority, [ case ], Parke B stated: The rule of the common law is, that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation, with respect to damages, as if the contract had been performed.
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The aim of the expectation measure award of damages for breach of contract is to place the claimant, so far as money can do it, in the position they would have been in had the contract been properly performed. Claimants are therefore able to recover damages in respect of the loss of gains which they have been deprived of by the breach. In the leading authority, [ case ], Parke B stated: The rule of the common law is, that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation, with respect to damages, as if the contract had been performed.
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Robinson v Harman (1848) 1 Ex 850
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