 Liability for the next contract would be "completely unquantifiable".And according to Lord Reid in "C Czarnikow Ltd v Koufos", the question was if short delay, resulting in extraordinary loss was
"sufficiently likely to result from the breach of contract to make it proper to hold that the loss flowed naturally from the breach or that loss of that kind should have been within [Transfield's] contemplation".In this case it was not.