Justifying Private Law Remedies.

Prelims -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Part I General Concepts -- 1 Two Conceptions of Remedies -- I The Two Conceptions -- II The Reason Conception of Remedies -- III The Condition Conception of Remedies -- IV Monism and Dualism -- V Conclusion -- 2 Rights, Remedies, Wrongs and the Bribe-taking Fiduciary -- I Introduction -- II Replicative and Transformative Remedies, Wrongs and Not-Wrongs -- III Reid and Replicative Remedies -- IV Remedial Certainty, Wrongs and Not-Wrongs -- V Conclusion -- 3 'Discretion and Remedies' -- 4 The Role of Policy in the Law of Obligations -- Part II Performance -- 5 Substitutionary Damages -- I The Orthodox View: Cost of Cure as Equivalent to Value of Loss -- II Cost of Cure as Substitutionary Damages -- III Conclusion -- 6 The Inadequacy of Damages as a Remedy for Breach of Contract -- I Introduction -- II When are Damages Inadequate? -- III Why Damages are Inadequate -- IV The Significance of the Inadequacy of Damages -- V Adressing the Problem of Inadequacy -- VI Conclusion -- Part III Compensation -- 7 A Good Faith Perspective on Liquidated Damages -- I Inroduction -- II Good Faith and the Dunlop Principles -- III Good Faith and Limitations on the Out of All Proportion Test -- IV Some Practical Considerations and Implications -- V Conclusion -- 8 Economic Loss and the Duty of Care: a Study in the Exercise of Legal Justification -- I Introduction -- II Reasons, Identifying Relevant Justifications -- III Concepts, Integrating Justifications into Legal Reasoning, Problems and Ideals -- IV Conclusions and Reflections -- 9 Compensation for Breach of Trust-The Remoteness Impasse -- I Background -- II Law as an Exercise in Justifuing Decisions -- III Corrective Justice and Trustees' Duties -- IV Conclusion -- Part IV Punishment -- 10 In Defence of Exemplary Damages.

I Introduction -- II The Moral Gap that Would Arise if Private Law Were Without Deterrence -- III Deterrence is Too Entrenched in Private Law to be Uprooted Without Compelling Reason -- IV Flaws in the Theories that Reject Exemplary Damages -- V Conclusion -- 11 Justice and Punishment in Tort: A Comparative Theoretical Analysis -- I Introduction -- II Three Preliminary Points -- III The Civilian Model -- IV The Common Law Model -- V The Models and the Common Law of Tort -- VI The Deterioration of the Civilian Model in the Civilian Law -- VII Conclusion -- Part V Restitution and Disgorgement -- 12 Restitutionary Remedies for Wrongs: Causation and Remoteness -- I The Principles of Causation -- II Application of the Principles of Causation to Different Types of Restitutionary Remedy -- III Application of the Principles of Causation to Different Types of Wrong -- IV Conclusions -- 13 Subtractive and Wrongful Enrichment: Identifying Gain in the Law of Restitution -- I Restitution of Unjust Enrichment -- II Gain-Based Damages for Wrongs -- III Conclusion -- 14 Equitable Relief from Forfeiture: Performance or Restitution? -- I Introduction -- II Equitable Relief from Forfeiture -- III Tanwar Enterprises PTY LTD V Cauchi -- IV Restitution and Relief from Forfeiture -- V Conclusion -- Index.

This book contains a number of the papers delivered at the third Austrralian Obligations Conference in 2006 on "Justifying Private Law Remedies".

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