Research handbook on remedies in private law / edited by Roger Halson, David Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halson, Roger.

Contributor:

Halson, Roger, editor.

Campbell, David, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in private and commercial law series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Remedies (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (548 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

"The purpose and doctrinal structure of private law remedies has undergone fundamental questioning over the last 25 years. This Research Handbook comprehensively and authoritatively reviews the contemporary challenges in research regarding remedies in private law. The Research Handbook on Remedies in Private Law focuses on the most important issues throughout contract, equity, restitution and tort law as they have arisen in the major common law jurisdictions, touching upon those of other jurisdictions where pertinent. Leading contributors from across the globe thoroughly analyse the steps taken to improve the clarity and functioning of the law and examine additions to the law's difficulties. Providing a uniquely in-depth engagement with the doctrine and theory of the topic, this Research Handbook will be of great interest to academics and students working and studying contract, equity, restitution or tort law, as well as practising lawyers in the field"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface: Stewart Macaulay, University of Wisconsin Introduction: David Campbell, Lancaster and Roger Halson, Leeds

A. General issues

1. Is remedies a subject? / Steve Hedley

2. The modern history of remedies for breach of contract / Stephen Waddams

3. The modern history of remedies in tort / Paul Mitchell

4. Personal injury compensation and civil justice paradigms / Annette Morris

5. Remedies and reality in the law of contract / Catherine Mitchell

B. The protected interests

6. The limitations on 'reliance' damages for breach of contract / David McLauchlan

7. Restitution / Peter Jaffey

8. The performance interest / David Winterton

9. Remedies for breach of trust / Duncan Sheehan

C. Specific issues

10. Termination of contract for fundamental breach / Qiao Liu

11. Literal enforcement of obligations / Andrew Tettenborn

12. Damages for non-pecuniary loss / Roger Halson

13. Remedies for common mistake and frustration / Catharine Macmillan

14. Market damages and their relationship to the general principles of remedies for breach of contract / David Campbell

15. Consumer law and the consumer rights act 2015 / James Devenney

16. Injunctions through the lens of nuisance / Robert Palmer and Ben Pontin

17. Gain-based damages / Katy Barnett

D. Insights from other jurisdictions

18. Remedies for breach of contract in Scots law / Laura MacGregor

19. Australian perspectives on contract damages / Sirko Harder

20. Canadian perspectives on contract remedies / Jeff Berryman

21. New Zealand perspectives on contract remedies / Rick Bigwood

22. Remedies in international instruments / Ewan McKendrick and Xiang Ren

23. Those magnificent men in their unifying machines: Exploring the wreckage of the unification initiative in European private law / Mel Kenny

E. Theoretical perspectives

24. Tort law and the tort system: from vindictiveness to vindication / Allan Beever

25. The structure of remedial law / Steve Smith

26. Contract damages as default rules / Jonathan Morgan

27. A relational perspective on contract law's default rules, with an emphasis on remedies / William Whitford

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78643-127-0