Punitive Damages in UK Law
- EU Member States' Courts Versus U.S. Punitive Damages Awards for Physical Harm in Football: An Attempt at Defining Best Practice
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Chemical warfare: ACS fires back at Dialog The American Chemical Society (ACS) has finally answered Dialog's $150 mil‐lion lawsuit against it with a countersuit and accusations that Dialog defraude...... ... ACS seeks an additional $30 million for punitive damages and asked the courts to insist on a formal audit of Dialog's ... ...
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The Penalty Clause Bias
Common law and civil law do not seem to agree on the function of punitive liquidated damages. Whereas penalty clauses are seen as a way of enriching contract law in France and the Netherlands, they...... ... Common law and civil law do not seem to agree on the f unction of punitive liquidated damages. Wherea s penalty clauses are seen as a way of enr ... ...
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Contract Damages, Corrective Justice and Punishment
This article re‐examines the established principle that contract damages compensate but do not punish from the theoretical perspective of corrective justice and, in particular, the version advocate...... ... correctiv e justice a⁄rms the traditional view that contractdamages should be circumscribed by compensatory functions,a ndthe notion of punitive damages is inconsistent with the structure of correctivejustice and hence contractual rights.The correctness of thi s conclusion depends, howev er, ... ...
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Dialog files suit against ACS On 7 June 1990, Dialog Information Services filed a suit against the American Chemical Society (ACS) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. ...... ... recompense of $150 million, including $100 million in puni-tive damages, and relief from outstand-ing royalty claims from the ACS. Dialog's ... ...
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Inaccurate Conception: ACB v Thomson Medical
This note considers the decision of the Singapore Court of Appeal in ACB v Thomson Medical in which the plaintiff sought damages for the upkeep costs of a child conceived using sperm from someone o...... ... of Appeal in ACB v Thomson Medical in which the plaintiff sought damages for the upkeep costs of a child conceived using sperm from someone other ... While holding that punitive damages could be recov ered outside the categories recognised in Rookes ... ...
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Sexual Harassment and Australian Anti-Discrimination Law
This paper examines the law of sexual harassment in Australia and concludes that, while there is extensive legislative coverage at Commonwealth, State and Territory levels, this coverage is uneven....... ... harassment cases and remedies in a jurisdiction where punitive damages are not allowed. The paper considers the positive ... ...
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Sexual Harassment Law in Israel*
... ... The Jaw awards punitive damages to victims 1 of sexual harassment or prejudicial ... ...
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Effective Deterrence v Accessible Remedies: What Not to Borrow from US Discrimination Law
At a time when the UK consults on the appropriate powers and mission of a new single equality commission, the fight against discrimination must avoid unintentionally eroding the ability of the empl...... ... for employment discrimination dispute resolution by emphasizing punitive (exemp- lary) damages, class action lawsuits, and government funded ... ...
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The Law Commission Report on Aggravated, Exemplary and Restitutionary Damages
... ... it upholds the distinction now recognised in the case law between aggravated damages, which are remedial, and exemplary damages, which are punitive. 5 Aggravated damages, the Report considers, are intended to compensate for a particular form of harm, namely mental distress, or at * Department of ... ...
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