Measure of Damages in UK Law
- MEASURE OF DAMAGES IN CONTRACT AND TORT—LAW AND FACT
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LAW REFORM (PERSONAL INJURIES) ACT, 1948
... ... National Insurance benefits are to affect the measure of damages for personal injuries. In this Reuiew the passing ... ...
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Flexibility of Damages for Conversion and Detinue
... ... The problems relate to the proper assessment of damages for conversion and detinue: should the emphasis be on the measure of damages based on the value of the subject matter at a particular point in time 4 4 Tettenborn has already criticised the arbitrariness of this ... ...
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EXPECTATION, RELIANCE AND MISREPRESENTATION
... ... INTEREST in the distinction between expectation damages and reliance damages, once an almost exclusively American ... , and to argue that decisions and 1 The normal measure of damages for breach of contract, often described as ... ...
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Re POLEMIS
... ... on these questions, held the charterers liable for the damages, f 190,165 1s. lld. They accepted the shipowners’ contention ... It was this issue on the measure of damage which has largely engaged the attention of the ... ...
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Measures in Misrepresentation: Recent Steps in Awarding Damages
... ... , though, the question of damages has given rise to difficulties: there was long a doubt as to which was the appropriate measure of damagesI0; there were proponents of the contractual measure, but in recent years it has become tentatively accepted that the ... ...
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Damages for Breach of Contract — Compensation and ‘Personal Preferences’: Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd v Forsyth
... ... ’ so that the employer is restricted to difference in value,2 although some American courts have suggested that the measure adopted should depend on whether the breach in question is inadvertent or deliberate.3 The problem can be particularly acute ... ...
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Subject Index
... ... LAW, see also COMMON MARKET labour courts tort, measure of damages strict liability France Germany CONFLICT OF LAWS ... ...
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Profits from Wrongdoing: Private and Public Law Perspectives
... ... of contract, thereby qualifying the principle that the purpose of damages awarded for breach of contract is simply to cover the losses of the ... Robinson v Harman , 3 provided problems in application where the measure of damages was capable of being addressed by way of either the ‘cost of ... ...
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JUSTIFYING PRIVATE LAW REMEDIES. Ed by Charles E F Rickett Oxford & Portland: Hart Publishing (www.hartpub.co.uk), 2008. xxvii + 393 pp. ISBN 9781841138415. £65.
... ... Dr Edelman's defence of exemplary damages is particularly enjoyable, since it has become “fashionable” for ... of deterrence, and offers a rational account of why some such measure of damages is needed to fulfil a moral purpose, as well as a compensatory ... ...
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