Principle

CIVIL PROCEDURE – Remedies – Special Damages – Distinction from General Damages – Legal Character

Area of law
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Court
Supreme Court

This fundamentally distinguishes general from special damages. General damages: Law presumes them—direct, natural, probable consequences of wrong; follow in ordinary course; need not be specially pleaded; and court infers from nature of wrong. Examples: pain/suffering in personal injury, loss of amenity, general consequential loss. Special…

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