A, a man aged 40, is employed as the manager of a shop at an annual salary of $50,000. The company he works for requires its staff to retire at age 65. A is studying some management subjects at university and hopes to get a job in a year or two as a financial manager at a salary of around $60,000 per year.
Then A is injured in an accident caused by B's negligence. As a result of these injuries A will never be able to work full time again: at best he will earn about $10,000 a year as a casual employee doing unskilled work. How would a court take account of facts such as these to calculate what damages A is entitled to?