Remedies category: 41 books
by Geoffrey Samuel
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
This book examines the notion of a law of obligations as a conceptual category in itself; and, in doing this, it presents the foundational material in a context that draws on some comparative and theoretical ideas while, at the same time, emphasising the special characteristics of the common law.
The...
Restitution
Civil Liability for Unjust Enrichment
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value. Or a company pays a shareholder excessive dividends or pays them to the wrong...
Unjust Enrichment and Public Law
A Comparative Study of England, France and the EU
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This book examines claims involving unjust enrichment and public bodies in France,England and the EU. Part 1 explores the law as it now stands in England and Wales as a result of cases such as Woolwich EBS v IRC, those resulting from the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Metallgesellschaft...
The Death of Common Sense
How Law Is Suffocating America
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
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“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common...
Who Gets What
Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Agent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Tech massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf oil spill: each was a disaster in its own right. What they had in common was their aftermath—each required compensation for lives lost, bodies maimed, livelihoods wrecked,...
by Green Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Plain English explanation of the structured settlement process. Understand what's involved so you can win big. Discussion on selling settlements, cash structured settlement, annuities, settlement payments and more.
Are you not 100% sure about what a structured settlement is and how to negotiate...
Little Book of Circle Processes
A New/Old Approach To Peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Our ancestors gathered around a fire in a circle, families gather around their kitchen tables in circles, and now we are gathering in circles as communities to solve problems. The practice draws on the ancient Native American tradition of a talking piece. Peacemaking Circles are used in neighborhoods...
Claims to Traceable Proceeds
Law, Equity, and the Control of Assets
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In this new book, Aruna Nair sets out her arguments for a re-evaluation of the law of tracing. A new model of the law of tracing is proposed and the book demonstrates how current problems can be solved using this new model. The rules of tracing are not shown not to be pure rules of evidence, aimed...
by Judicial College
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages are designed to provide a clear and logical framework for the assessment of damages in personal injury cases. The first edition of this title was regarded as a landmark in personal injury practice. Each succeeding issue has built on this reputation...
The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools
Teaching Responsibility; Creating Caring Climates
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Can community-building begin in a classroom? The authors of this book believe that by applying restorative justice at school, we can build a healthier and more just society. With practical applications and models.
Can an overworked teacher possibly turn an unruly incident with students into...
The Scotia Widows
Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy Coal
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine in the heart of Eastern Kentucky coal country. The blast killed fifteen miners who were working nearly three and a half miles underground; two days later, a second explosion...
The Common Law of Obligations
Divergence and Unity
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The development of the law of obligations across the common law world has been, and continues to be, a story of unity and divergence. Its common origins continue to exert a powerful stabilising influence, carried forward by a methodology that places heavy weight on the historical foundations of legal...
Measuring Damages in the Law of Obligations
The Search for Harmonised Principles
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
This book challenges certain differences between contract, tort and equity in relation to the measure (in a broad sense) of damages. Damages are defined as the monetary award made by a court in consequence of a breach of contract, a tort or an equitable wrong. In all these causes of action, damages...
by Irina Zakirova
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
There is no universally accepted definition of moral damages, but the concept is usually understood in the context of torts that cause psychological harm to a person or a person’s rights that are difficult to quantify. Heaven’s Chancellery describes the difficulties of obtaining legal compensation...