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…This appeal arises from a decision of the High Court (Trainor, J) (as he then was) in a dispute between the appellant and the respondents wherein the appellant alleged that the respondents were in breach of contract.…

…After a full trial the learned judge found that the appellant and the first respondent were party to a contract and that the first respondent was in breach of the contract.…

…The respondent commenced proceedings in the superior court for damages for breach of contract, specific performance of the contract by execution of all necessary documents, general damages, exemplary damages, interests and…

…settled contract for sale had come into existence upon fall of the hammer and payment of 25% of the bid price and that, as the respondent was still within the 30 day period for payment, the revocation of the sale was a breach…

…Justice Rauf struck out the plaint in the superior court whilst holding that the plaint did not set out important averments relating to alleged inducing of breach of contract.…

…He (the learned judge) concluded that if the plaintiffs were to succeed in the action they ought to have pleaded special damages suffered by them for the alleged inducement of breach of contract.…

…The claims by the plaintiff as formulated in the plaint can be put in a summary or precis form as follows: (1) The defendant was in breach of contract between the parties by which contract the plaintiff was appointed the…

…The plaintiff was therefore entitled to damages, basically for breach of contract, but also in sounding in detinue. But the measure of damages must be subject to some restraint.…

…It follows that once an employee has been dismissed, whether rightly or wrongly, the dismissal stands, and if the contract has been broken by the employer, damages for breach of contract is the remedy to which the employee…

…that the contract constituted the Plaintiff alone the sole Agent for the 1st Defendant from 1997 to 2015, and therefore by terminating the contract and appointing the 2nd Defendant as its Agent, the 1st Defendant was in breach…

…of that contract; hence the injunctive orders sought by the Plaintiff.…

…Moreover, he continued, section 27, assuming it does apply to contracts, would not apply to every breach of a contractual duty, for example it would not apply to a breach of contract for the sale of goods or of land.…

…The court should therefore lean toward giving the section a purposive effect, because to do so would still permit the six years’ period of limitation under section 4(1) to operate in actions for breach of contract which do…

…insurance policy contained a clause stipulating that all disputes arising had to be referred to arbitration, and before any such reference was made, the plaintiff filed a suit against the appellant claiming damages for alleged breach…

…of contract.…

…The contractor then refused to carry out the works which was a breach of the contract. The employer had to put the works out to tender again and suffered considerable loss which was particularised.…

…Finally, a party is entitled to resist an action for breach of contract on any ground that is available even though before action he gave no reason at all.…

…injunction restraining the appellant from terminating his licence or interfering with the running of the station; a declaration that the Agreement entered into between him and the appellant is unconscionable and damages for breach…

…of contract.…

…by the appellants to sign the agreement for sale, the respondent filed a suit in the superior court against the appellants seeking, among other reliefs, specific performance of the sale agreement and general damages for breach…

…of contract in lieu of specific performance.…

…(3) If so, was the said accident caused by the negligence and/or breach of contract of employment on the part of the defendants, its (sic) servant or agent as alleged in the plaint?…