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Chitty: White v Jones applied — Chaplin v Hicks

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

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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