Pecuniary loss (except consequent on personal injury, death, or loss of reputation)

Abstract

Breach of contract damages are normally sought and awarded for this type of loss. It is therefore not surprising that there is a host of different ways of analysing and subdividing it. Here the approach adopted will be to divide between basic pecuniary loss, which will be primarily concentrated on, and which focuses on the benefit to which the claimant was contractually entitled and of which it has been wholly or partially deprived by the defendant’s breach, and additional pecuniary loss.