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Zusatztext Andrew Burrow's Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract fully deserves its reputation as the leading student work on judicial remedies for civil wrongs in English law! as well as an accessible text offering some robust guidance for practitioners. Its author surely ranks as our pre-eminent scholar of the law of remedies...Though later editions of popular and well-established texts can miss the attentions of reviewers! the third edition of Remedies must not. Itdeserves a loud fanfare...It is impossible to offer an exhaustive account of Burrows' treatment of each within the narrow confines of this reviewsufficient to say that they are all dealt with with Burrows' customary eloquence and incisiveness...the 3rd edition of Burrows' Remedies 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. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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, anddeclaring 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. Zusammenfassung 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! anddeclaring 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. ...
