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1. It is convenient to refer to the Appellant as “the Buyer” and the Respondents as “the Sellers”. The Buyer paid to his sub-purchaser a sum of £1,400 as damages for breach of contract and it is half of that sum which he now seeks to recover from the Sellers. He claimed the whole £1,400 but it appears to be conceded that, as the learned judge has held, no more than half can be recovered. The learned judge said that the matter went to arbitration in Berbera and that £1,400 “was awarded”, that bei