Future emerging damage Supreme Cour judgment dated September 14, 2017, Roll No 400-2017

Future emerging damage
Supreme Cour judgment dated September 14, 2017, Roll No 400-2017

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Tomás Frenck

Abstract

This commentary analyses the Supreme Court’s ruling of 14 September 2017, in which the Court, hearing an appeal, referred to the feasibility of compensating direct damages that will occur in the future. This ruling is unique since we tend to think of the direct damage as compensation derives from a pecuniary loss already incurred. However, in this case, the Supreme Court considers that direct damage that will occur in the future, insofar as there is a certainty of it, could be compensated.

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