Subjects:

Contract Law, Tort Law

Contents:

1 General Introduction

PART 1: COMPENSATION

2 Introduction to compensatory damages: types of loss, compensatory aims and theoretical underpinnings

3 Factual causation

4 Proof of loss and loss of a chance

5 Contractual reliance damages

6 Principles limiting compensatory damages

7 Compensating advantages

8 Form of compensatory damages, date for assessment, taxation

9 Pecuniary loss (except consequent on personal injury, death or loss of reputation)

10 Personal injury losses

11 Losses on death

12 Loss of reputation

13 Mental distress or physical inconvenience (except consequent on personal injury or death)

14 Awards of interest on damages

15 Limitation periods

16 Equitable (compensatory) damages

PART II: RESTITUTION AND PUNISHMENT

17 Restitutionary remedies (for torts and breach of contract)

18 Punitive damages

PART III: COMPELLING PERFORMANCE OR PREVENTING (OR COMPELLING THE UNDOING OF) A WRONG

19 The award of an agreed sum

20 Specific performance

21 Injunctions

22 Delivery up

PART IV: DECLARING RIGHTS

23 Nominal and contemptuous damages and declarations

PART V: REMEDIES FOR AVAILABLE WRONGS

24 Remedies for equitable wrongs

Now in its third edition this popular text has been comprehensively rewritten to take account of all new developments in the law, as well as Law Commission reports and academic writings. The book has also been restructured and divided into parts which correspond to the primary functions of the remedies for torts and breach of contract, namely compensation, restitution and punishment, compelling performance or preventing (or compelling the undoing of) a wrong, and declaring rights.

Reflecting their increased importance in practice, and the considerable recent academic attention devoted to them, there is also a new chapter on remedies for equitable wrongs such as breach of fiduciary duty and reach of confidence.