Atlanta Building Pty Ltd v Abela (No 3) [2025] NSWSC 730 — Breach Of Contract & Recovery On Quantum Meruit — Barrister AI

Atlanta Building Pty Ltd v Abela (No 3)

[2025] NSWSC 730

Supreme Court of NSW

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Catchwords

1. Contracts
2. › Breach of contract
3. › Remedies
4. › Damages
5. › Expectation damages
6. › Quantification of expectation loss
7. › Whether evidence adduced by plaintiff sufficient to establish extent of expectation loss occasioned by repudiation
8. › Whether plaintiff expected to adduce further evidence to establish expectation loss
9. › Plaintiff’s evidence insufficient
10. › No damages awarded on head as claimed
1. Contracts
2. › Breach of contract
3. › Remedies
4. › Damages
5. › Limits on recovery
6. › Remoteness
7. › Where plaintiff claims loss in form of wages paid to carpenters retained on construction of defendants’ residence
8. › Where plaintiff’s employment of carpenters not brought to defendants’ attention prior to retention
9. › Whether loss natural result of defendants’ repudiation of contract
10. › Whether second defendant assumed responsibility for loss
11. › Loss too remote
12. › No damages awarded on head as claimed
1. Contracts
2. › Recovery on quantum meruit
3. › Nature of claim in quantum meruit
4. › Free acceptance
5. › Where plaintiff effected further construction works at defendants’ request
6. › Whether plaintiff entitled to restitution for construction work outlaid
7. › Contract in favour of plaintiff inferred from defendants’ request for further construction works

Case Details

Citation[2025] NSWSC 730

CourtNSWSC

JurisdictionNew South Wales

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2026Blacktown City Council v Statewide Civil Pty LtdNSWSC 176
2025Atlanta Building Pty Ltd v Abela (No 4)NSWSC 1277

Relies on14

2025XJS World Pty Ltd v Central West Civil Pty LtdNSWCA 133
2024Atlanta Building Pty Ltd v Abela (No 2)NSWSC 1510
2024Atlanta Building Pty Ltd v AbelaNSWSC 1193
2023Beau Timothy John Hartnett trading as Hartnett Lawyers v Anthony Robert Bell as Executor of the Estate of the late Mabel Dawn Deakin-BellNSWCA 244
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