“… some immediate damage, simply because he did not get what he should have got”. “Thus,” Lord Hoffmann continued, “in Knapp v Ecclesiastical Insurance Group plc [1998] PNLR 172, where the plaintiff paid a premium for a voidable fire insurance policy because his insurance broker had failed to disclose material facts, the Court of Appea…”
“…“Thus cases like Bell v Peter Browne & Co [1990] 2 QB 495 and Knapp v Ecclesiastical Insurance Group plc [1998] PNLR 172 are readily explicable as cases in which the damage was the difference between the plaintiff’s position as it was and as it would have been if the defendant ha…”
“…ssues as to the significance of remediability also featured in Bell v Peter Browne & Co [1990] 2 QB 495 (“Bell”) and Knapp v Ecclesiastical Insurance Group plc [1998] PNLR 172 (“Knapp”). In Bell, the plaintiff agreed with his wife following the breakdown of their marriage that he would transfer the matrimonial home to her on the foot…”