Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Johnson v Agnew [1980] AC 367 is a landmark English contract law case on the date for assessing damages. Lord Wilberforce decided that the date appropriate is the date of breach, or when a contracting party could reasonably be aware of a breach.Five major principles it laid down were,termination for breach of contract is "prospective", not "retrospective"; i.e. repudiatory breach of contract discharges both parties from future performance of their contractual obligations, but leaves their accrued rights intact (and themselves open to damages)a claimant for specific performance does not forfeit his right to terminate the contract by accepting a defendant's repudiatory breachwhen a specific performance decree is made, a court oversees performance, and it has the sole jurisdiction to determine whether that obligation can be dischargedcommon law damages are assessed at the date of the breach of the contract, though the court may fix another date if justice requiresthe same principles for awarding common law damages applies to awarding equitable damages under s 50 Supreme Court Act 1981. }
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- Johnson_v_Agnew abstract "Johnson v Agnew [1980] AC 367 is a landmark English contract law case on the date for assessing damages. Lord Wilberforce decided that the date appropriate is the date of breach, or when a contracting party could reasonably be aware of a breach.Five major principles it laid down were,termination for breach of contract is "prospective", not "retrospective"; i.e. repudiatory breach of contract discharges both parties from future performance of their contractual obligations, but leaves their accrued rights intact (and themselves open to damages)a claimant for specific performance does not forfeit his right to terminate the contract by accepting a defendant's repudiatory breachwhen a specific performance decree is made, a court oversees performance, and it has the sole jurisdiction to determine whether that obligation can be dischargedcommon law damages are assessed at the date of the breach of the contract, though the court may fix another date if justice requiresthe same principles for awarding common law damages applies to awarding equitable damages under s 50 Supreme Court Act 1981".