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Written by leading experts, this book offers unique coverage of the most difficult and pressing concerns within commercial remedies.
List of contents
Part I. Introduction: 1. Commercial remedies: identifying themes and controversies Graham Virgo and Sarah Worthington; 2. On the nature and function of remedies for breach of contract Jonathan Morgan; Part II. Specific Remedies: 3. Repudiation: keeping the contract alive Janet O'Sullivan; 4. Termination and the agreed sum Andrew Summers; 5. Specific performance and change of mind Mindy Chen-Wishart; 6. Injunctions in tort and contract Paul Davies; 7. Rescission Nick McBride; 8. Remedies for vindicating ownership rights in real property Amy Goymour; Part III. Monetary Remedies: 9. Performance damages Charlie Webb; 10. Proving contract damages Adam Kramer; 11. Interest Andrew Burrows; 12. Actionable loss of a chance Sarah Green; 13. Gain-based remedies Graham Virgo; 14. Exemplary damages James Goudkamp; Part IV. Agreed and Party-Specific Remedies: 15. Express termination clauses Richard Hooley; 16. Penalty clauses Sarah Worthington; 17. Deposit clauses Carmine Conte; 18. Flawed assets clauses Louise Gullifer; 19. Subrogation Stephen Watterson; 20. Equitable set-off Peter Turner; Part V. Special Contexts: 21. Commercial remedies in international cases Louise Merrett; 22. Remedies of the criminal courts Matthew Dyson and Paul Jarvis; Part VI. The Future: 23. Codification of remedies for breach of commercial contracts: a blue-print Neil Andrews.
About the author
Graham Virgo is a co-director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, University of Cambridge.Sarah Worthington is a co-director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, University of Cambridge.
Summary
The law of commercial remedies is of practical and academic importance. This book focuses on the fundamental controversies surrounding key commercial remedies and seeks to resolve those controversies in a principled and clear way. Consequently, the book will be of interest to practitioners, judges, academics and students.
