Hearings
United Kingdom
13 Jul 2020 [2020] UKPC 18; [2021] AC 23; [2020] 3 WLR 584; [2021] 2 All ER (Comm) 1; [2020] WLR(D) 431, PC (Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Arden, Lord Sales JJSC, Lord Wilson)
Attorney General of the Virgin Islands v Global Water Associates Ltd
Subject Matter
DAMAGES — Contract — Breach — Company entering separate contracts with government to build and manage water reclamation treatment plant — Government breaching building contract and plant not built — Whether company entitled to damages for lost profit under management contract — Whether damages too remote
[2020] UKPC 18; [2021] AC 23; [2020] 3 WLR 584; [2021] 2 All ER (Comm) 1; [2020] WLR(D) 431, PC
Commentary
RPC Perspectives
Privy Council gives a lesson on the remoteness of damage in contract law within a judgment on damages for breach of separate but related contracts
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