A claim for damages for breach of a services contract, where the claimant seeks compensation for the income it would have earned had the contract been performed, is a conventional expectation damages claim and not a loss of opportunity claim, even if pleaded as such. The comparison period methodology (comparing performance under the breached contract with performance achieved by the claimant itself after termination) is an acceptable basis for proving expectation loss. Alternative analyses of expert evidence must be put to the relevant witnesses at trial; failure to do so may result in the alternative analysis being rejected.
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