Remedies category: 41 books

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by Geoffrey Samuel
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...
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Restitution

Civil Liability for Unjust Enrichment

by Ward Farnsworth
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...
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Unjust Enrichment and Public Law

A Comparative Study of England, France and the EU

by Dr Rebecca Williams
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...
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The Death of Common Sense

How Law Is Suffocating America

by Philip K. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “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...
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Who Gets What

Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval

by Kenneth R. Feinberg
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,...
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by Green Initiatives
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...
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Little Book of Circle Processes

A New/Old Approach To Peacemaking

by Kay Pranis
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...
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Claims to Traceable Proceeds

Law, Equity, and the Control of Assets

by Aruna Nair
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...
Cover of Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases
by Judicial College
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...
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The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools

Teaching Responsibility; Creating Caring Climates

by Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz
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...
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The Scotia Widows

Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy Coal

by Gerald Stern
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...
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The Common Law of Obligations

Divergence and Unity

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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...
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Measuring Damages in the Law of Obligations

The Search for Harmonised Principles

by Dr Sirko Harder
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...
Cover of Heaven's Chancellery
by Irina Zakirova
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...
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