Reduced damages and costs penalty after claim held to be exaggerated

Contact for sale –  misrepresentation  – Sale of site  – quantum and costs arising from the Court's earlier judgment  –  exorbitant claim in respect of matters which were plainly the mistake of the plaintiff  – excessive and manifestly unjustifiable claims overshadowed the entire proceedings  – reduction in market value of the house – to be quantified  ­– quantification of this loss was never formally pleaded by the plaintiff   – valuation evidence and accountancy evidence to support the plaintiff's extravagant claim for damages was thoroughly discredited – no expert valuation of the value of the site at the date of the contract any alleged loss has not been properly quantified  – assessing damages – section 2(1) of the Misrepresentation Act (Northern Ireland) 1967  – Butterworth's Common Law Series – The Law of Damages at para17.14  –damages for tort or breach of contract are assessed at the date of the breach  – not mechanically applied – costs –  Order 62 Rule 3(3) of the Rules of the Supreme Court  – Order 26 Rule 29(2) of the Rules of the Supreme Court  – exaggerated claim – plaintiff penalised.