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Trespass: Damages without loss
How should damages be assessed where there is no loss to the claimant but the defendant has gained a benefit that he has not had to pay for? Robert Phillips looks at a recent case ‘We can draw from Eaton Mansions confirmation of the principle that even where a trespass causes no, or minimal, loss …
Cases Referenced
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- Amec Developments Ltd v Jury's Hotel Management (UK) Ltd [2000] EWHC Ch 454
- Attorney General v Blake [2000] UKHL 45
- Eaton Mansions (Westminster) Ltd v Stinger Compania de Inversion SA [2012] EWHC 3354 (Ch); [2013] EWCA Civ 1308
- Messenger Newspapers Group Ltd v National Geographical Association [1984] IRLR 397
- Stadium Capital Holdings (No 2) Ltd v St Marylebone Property Company & anor [2011] EWHC 2856 (Ch)