Cour de Cassation — Contract Law — Damages — Loss of a chance

Date Citation Note
04.03.1980 J.C.P. 1980, IV, 197 Case V.

Subsequent developments
When a woman’s appeal from an adverse judgment in a divorce case might well have succeeded if her attorney had not failed to submit the relevant documents on time, the attorney was held liable for carelessly losing her the chance of succeeding in her appeal.