Q.What are the remedies available to an aggrieved party on breach of contract?

The law gives an injured party a small toolkit of remedies, matched to what actually makes sense given the kind of loss suffered. …

1. Rescission — the aggrieved party treats the contract as cancelled and is freed from performing their own remaining obligations.
2. Suit for damages — a claim for monetary compensation (ordinary, special, exemplary, or nominal, depending on the nature and circumstances of the loss).
3. Suit for specific performance — where damages would not adequately compensate (e.g. a unique item or piece of land), the court orders the party in breach to actually carry out the promise.
4. Suit for injunction — a court order restraining a party from doing an act they had promised not to do.
5. Quantum Meruit — a claim for reasonable payment for work/goods already supplied under a contract that could not be completed because of the other party's breach. …

Listing only 'damages' as if it were the sole remedy for breach — the syllabus recognises four other distinct rem …