When are remedies for breach of contract exclusive?

HARCAP v F K GENERATORS [2017]

Contracting parties are unlikely to intend to cut down the remedies which the law provides for breach of important contractual obligations and so make them exclusive remedies, without using very clear words having that effect. This was the Court’s conclusion in a case where a fee was payable for breach of contract and so this did not mean the injured party had no other remedies.

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