United Kingdom loss of chancesolicitorsassessment

Dudarec v Andrews

[2006] EWCA Civ 256; [2006] 1 WLR 3002

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)

Year2006

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

In assessing damages for the loss of a chance in a solicitors' negligence claim, the court may use hindsight and take into account facts that were knowable but undiscovered at the notional trial date, while disregarding facts that were genuinely unknowable at that date.

Area of Law

General

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