“… to the insignificant, in other words to a point where it could be altogether disregarded”. Giving the judgment of the Privy Council in Phillips & Co v Whatley [2007] UKPC 28, [2007] PNLR 27, in a negligence claim against solicitors involving three contingencies, Lord Mance said at [2] that the “conventional approach to a claim such…”
“…f the chance of recovering damages in a claim against a third party: see e.g. Allen v Sir Alfred MacAlpine & Sons Ltd [1968] 2 QB 229, 256-7;Phillips v Whatley [2007] UKPC 28, [2007] PNLR 27 at [45].…”