English Contract Law General Principles

The House of Lords held that although general damages could not in principle be awarded…

Lord Steyn explained as follows:…

“…if a party’s contractual performance has failed to provide to the other contracting party something to which that other was, under the contract, entitled, and which, if provided, would have been of value to that party, then, if there is no other way of compensating the injured party, the injured party should be compensated in damages to the extent of that value. Quantification of that value will in many cases be difficult and may often seem arbitrary”.(443)…