for special damages.
To that regard, Black’s Law Dictionary
defines General damages as:
“Damages that the Law presumes follow from the type
of wrong complained of specific compensatory damages
for harm that so frequently results from the tort for
which a Party has sued that the harm is reasonably
expected and need not be alleged or proved.”
In other words, general damages are for intangible losses that
can be influenced from special one as well as from facts
surrounding the case and to that extent, they are not easily
measureable.
In addition, the High Court of Uganda held in an employment
dispute between an employee and a defendant company that:
“On the issue of damages, the Court accepted
submission by counsel of the defendant on the general
accepted rule that:
‘an employee is not entitled to damages for breach
of contract of service by the employer as the
employer
retains
the
right
to
terminate
his
services at any time even for no cause. And in such
a situation, an employee is only entitled
recover
arrears
of
completed
to
service
and
accumulated leave if any.”
On this basis the Court ruled that Plaintiff is not
entitled to the general damages claimed.” [See: Georges
CLAIM NO.1 OF 2012
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