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In this case, the Singapore Court of Appeal rejected the broader approach to determining remoteness of damage for breach of contract put forward by Lord Hoffman in The Achilleas – whether the contract breaker had assumed responsibility for the losses incurred - and set out an analytical framework for deciding questions of remoteness of damage. The Court also approved of Robert Goff J’s statements in The Pegase, and held that it was important not only important to consider what knowledge a contract breaker had or should be taken to have had at the time he entered into the contract, but also important to have regard to the circumstances in which that knowledge had been acquired. On this basis, most of the damages suffered by Out of the Box were too remote to be recoverable from Wanin Industries.