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OCR A-Level Law
OCR Contract Law
Remedies
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Remedies available:
Recission
Repudication
Damages
Injunction
Specific
performance
Consumer
remedies
Damages
They are a legal remedy and always available if a contract term is broken. Damages are normally awarded for
“expectation loss”
or
“reliance loss”
Expectation loss
is the loss of a
bargain.
Reliance
loss is wasted
expenditure.
Nominal damages
Damages are always available for
breach
of contract, but might only be
nominal,
where there is no
actual
loss.
Staniforth
v
Lyall
Expectation Loss
The difference is value between the goods and services required in the contract and those actually provided.
Bence Graphics International
v
Fasson
Expectation Loss
Loss of
profit
, not just for good but in other
contracts.
Victoria
Laundry
v
Newman
Industries.
Reliance
Loss
The
expense
occured by the claimant who relied on a contract being performed.
Wasted
expenditure.
Anglia
TV v
Reed
Emotional Distress
Damages cannot usually be claimed for mental distress.
Addis
v
Gramophone Co