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30 June 2011
Issue: 7472 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Damages

Murfin v Campbell [2011] EWHC 1475 (Ch), [2011] All ER (D) 190 (Jun)

It was well established that damages were assessed at the date of breach, unless justice required that some other date be selected. The task of the judge on the date of judgment was to award to each claimant that sum of money which would on that date, put him as near as a money award could do so, in the position he would have been in on that date had there been no negligence on the part of the solicitor.
 

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