 Lord Hope agreed.He noted Blackburn J said in "Cory v Thames Ironworks Co" saying if the damage were exceptional and unnatural it would be harsh to make a party liable for it, because had he known he would have pushed for more time in the first place.Lord Rodger and Lady Hale on the other hand, decided the case on the more narrow ground, that the rule in "Hadley" was simply a question of what is foreseeable or ‘likely’.