Remedies in Australian private law / Katy Barnett, Sirko Harder.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

1st edition

85187

Remedies (Law) -- Australia.

1. Introduction

Part 1. General principles of compensation

2. Assessment of compensation

3. Attribution of responsibility

4. Multiple wrongdoers

Part 2. Compensation in specific context

5. Compensation for breach of contract

6. Compensation in tort

7. Compensation for personal injury and death

8. Compensation under the Australian consumer law

9. Equitable compensation for equitable wrongs

Part 3. Remedies compelling performance and related remedies

10. Specific performance

11. Injunctions

12. Equitable damages or Lord Cairns' Act damages

Part 4. Remedies as vindication

13. Self-help remedies

14. Exemplary damages and aggravated damages

15. Apologies and declaratory relief

Part 5. Account of profits and other gain-based relief for wrongs

16. Disgorgement of gains and 'reasonable fee' damages

Part 6. Restitution and giving back

17. Personal remedies for unjust enrichment

18. Rescission

Part 7. Proprietary remedies

19. Proprietary remedies

Part 8. Enforcement of remedies

20. Enforcement of remedies.

This is a concise collection of the remedies found in common law, equity and statute with specific focus on tort, contract, the Australian Consumer Law, restitution and equity. The authors' rubric is for the most remedies to explain the manner in which compensation is assessed, and to then analyse the way that responsibility is attributed and distributed. This will be a useful text for any litigator.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781107610835

lxviii, 466 p. ; 25 cm