Research Handbook on Remedies in Private Law /
Edited by Roger Halson and David Campbell
- xiii, 529 pages ; 25 cm.
- Research handbooks in private and commercial law .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Is remedies a subject? / The modern history of remedies for breach of contract / The modern history of tort remedies in England and Wales / Personal injury compensation and civil justice paradigms / Remedies and reality in the law of contracts / The limitations on reliance damages for breach of contract / Restitution / Equitable remedies for breach of trust / Termination of contract for fundamental breach / Literal enforcement of obligations / The recovery of damages for non-pecuniary loss in contract and tort : a unified approach / Remedies for common mistake and frustration / Market damages in sales of goods and their relationship to the general principles of remedies for breach of contract / Injunctions through the lens of nuisance / Gain-based damages / Remedies for breach of contract in Scots law / Australian perspectives on contract damages / Remedies in international instruments / Those magnificent men in their unifying machines : exploring the wreckage of the unification initiative in European private law / Tort law and the tort system : from vindictiveness to vindication / The structure of remedial law / A relational perspective on contract laws default rules, with an emphasis on remedies / Steve Hedley -- Stephen Waddams -- Paul Mitchell -- Annette Morris -- Catherine Mitchell -- David McLauchlan -- Peter Jaffey -- Two conceptions of the performance interest in contract damages / David Winterton -- Duncan Sheehan -- Qiao Liu -- Andrew Tettenborn -- Roger Halson -- Catharine MacMillan --- David Campbell -- The Consumer Rights Act 2015 and related reforms : an epic disappointment? / James Devenney -- Robert Palmer and Ben Pontin -- Katy Barnett -- Laura Macgregor -- Sirko harder -- Canadian perspectives on contract remedies / Jeff Berryman -- New Zealand perspectives on contract remedies / Rick Bigwood -- Ewan McKendrick, Qiao Liu and Xiang Ren -- Mel Kenny -- Allan Beever -- Stephen A. Smith -- Contract remedies as default rules / Jonathan Morgan -- William Whitford.
"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."--Publisher information.