17 April 2008
Whitehead v Hibbert Pownall & Newton [2008] All ER (D) 60 (Apr)
In a case where solicitors have negligently failed to prosecute a claim for damages, it is important not to take too narrow a view of the guidance afforded by the principle of restitutio in integrum if doing so will have the effect of leaving out of account events relevant to the ascertainment of just compensation, on the ground only that they have happened since the notional original trial and so were by definition unknowable at that time.
