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Chitty: White v Jones applied — Chaplin v Hicks

[1911] 2 KB 786
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (England and Wales)
Year1911
StatusBinding authority

Summary

Loss of a chance is recoverable in contract where the claimant proves on balance of probabilities a real and substantial chance of benefit was lost.

Key Principle

Loss of a chance is recoverable as damages for breach of contract where the claimant can show on the balance of probabilities that they lost a real and substantial chance of a benefit.

Area of Law

contract

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