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Koufos v C Czarnikow Ltd (The Heron II)

[1967] UKHL 4; [1969] 1 AC 350; [1967] 3 All ER 686

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtHouse of Lords

Year1967

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

The test of remoteness for damages in contract is more restrictive than in tort: the loss must have been within the parties' reasonable contemplation as a 'not unlikely' consequence of the breach.

Area of Law

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