REMEDIES IN TORT

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REMEDIES IN TORT

• Some brief comments

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Damages

• Note various types of damages available
• Compensatory damages
• Contemptuous damages
• Aggravated damages
• Exemplary damages
• Restitutionary damages

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Quantum

• Note the complex rules for assessing damages.
• Consider the various heads of damages and the way
  in which they have developed
• Note the different approaches to claims by a
  living claimant, by the executors on behalf of
  the estate of a deceased claimant, and by the
  dependents of a deceased claimant in the case of
  fatal accidents
• Consider the rules relating to deductions from
  damages
• Use of multiplicand and multiplier

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Injunctions

• Consider the purpose of the injunction and the
  appropriateness of this remedy
• Note the equitable nature of the remedy and the
  significance of this in decision making

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Compare -

• Remedies in contract and tort and consider which
  is more generous to claimants