Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract / Edition 3

by Andrew Burrows

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780406977267
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	03/10/2005
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	725
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple, is the Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Hugh's College. He was a Law Commissioner from 1994-1999.

He has a part time practice at Fountain Court Chambers, London and sits as a Recorder. He is a member of the Ogden Working Party and lectures regularly for the Judicial Studies Board. He has written extensively on the areas of contract, tort and restitution.

Table of 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

Editorial Reviews

"Its author surely ranks as our pre-eminent scholar of the law of remedies. Thought later editions of popular and well-established texts can miss the attentions of reviewers, the third edition of Remedies must not. It deserves a loud fanfare.[it] remains a superb book. No-one concerned with remedies for civil wrongs, as a legal academic, student or practitioner, can afford not to have a copy."

Stephen Watterson, University of Bristol, Lloyds Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly

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