What is the test for pre-judgment interest in assessing damages for breach of contract?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from R.W.H. Management & Investments Ltd. v. St. Pierre, 1997 ABCA 278 (CanLII):
The direction of the trial judge as to pre-judgment interest is consistent with the approach to damages set out in the judgment of the majority in Hodgkinson v. Simms et al., supra, referred to above. It represents an attempt to put the respondents in as good a position as if the breach had not occurred.
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