What are the damages for breach of contract?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hilchie v. Waterton Condominiums Inc., 2011 NSSC 489 (CanLII):
Compensatory damages are the usual remedy for breach of contract. The party that has been breached is entitled to the value of the promised performance. Recoverability is in accordance with the Hadley v. Baxendale principle ((1854), 156 E.R. 145). Damages for breach of contract are limited to the ordinary consequences which follow in the usual course of things for such breach or for the consequences of the breach which might reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of the parties at the time they made the contracts (Fridman, supra at p. 720).
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