North Sydney Leagues' Club Limited v Synergy Protection Agency Pty Limited

• 1. Contract
  2. › Breach of contract
  3. › Damages
  4. › Expectation damages
  5. › Assessment of lost profits
  6. › Whether overhead expenses must be deducted from estimated future revenue
  7. › Whether fixed costs that did not abate should be deducted
  8. › No absolute principle that account must be taken of overhead expenses
• 1. Contract
  2. › Breach of contract
  3. › Damages
  4. › Expectation damages
  5. › Sufficiency of evidence to prove loss
  6. › Whether lay evidence of financial calculations sufficient without expert evidence
  7. › Whether inaccuracies in underlying records undermined reliability of evidence
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Evidence produced by processes, machines and other devices
  3. › Statutory presumption
  4. › Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), s 146
  5. › Whether presumption directed to accuracy of underlying information or only to mechanical reproduction
• 1. Contract
  2. › Breach of contract
  3. › Damages
  4. › Mitigation
  5. › Whether failure to adduce evidence of post-termination revenue fatal to claim where no mitigation defence pleaded

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