Damages for Breach of Contract: How to Successfully Recover Damages or Defend a Claim
Review how to maximise contract damages or defend against a contract claim. Explore how contractual damages are assessed, how tort and consumer law plays into the equation, and how to navigate expectation and reliance damages, loss of change or opportunity, and loss of bargain damages. Build practical strategies to address causation, remoteness, mitigation, liquidated damages and more.
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Mark Addison, Consulting Principal, Keypoint Law
Damages for Breach of Contract: How to Successfully Recover Damages or Defend a Claim
- Triggering the right to damages in contract
- A guide to how contractual damages are assessed
- Differences between damages in contract, in tort and under the Australian Consumer Law
- Categories of recoverable loss and strategies for approaching each
- Expectation damages and reliance damages: A useful distinction?
- Loss of chance or opportunity: What must be proven?
- Loss of bargain damages: traps for the unwary
- Significance of time of assessment in changing market conditions
- causation, remoteness and mitigation
- Liquidated damages
- Case law examples
Presented by Jennifer Mee, Barrister, 6 St James Hall Chambers