Where misleading or deceptive conduct induces a victim to relinquish a contractual right, the prima facie measure of ACL damages is the cost of rectification to restore the position the victim would have been in had the contract been performed, and the wrongdoer bears the evidentiary onus of showing that cost is unreasonable; the victim need not prove diminution in property value.
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