Where a defendant's breach of a share sale agreement causes uncertainty in proving the value of shares that should have been transferred, damages may be assessed by reference to wasted expenditure (purchase price and stamp duty) under the facilitation principle from Cessnock, and the subsidiarity principle does not preclude concurrent restitutionary relief for total failure of consideration.
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