McGregor on damages : third supplement to the seventeenth edition / by Harvey McGregor; Chapter 42 on the Human Rights Act by Martin Spencer, Chapters 43-45 on Procedure by Julian Picton.

London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2006.

17th edition, 3rd supplement

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Mayne and McGregor on damages.

Damages -- England.

Damages -- Wales.

Damages.

Torts.

1. Definition, scope, object and terminology

2. Pecuniary losses

3. No-pecuniary losses

4. The general problem of limits

5. Reduction of damages for contributory neglect

6. Remoteness of damage

7. Mitigation of damage

8. Certainty of damage

9. Past and prospective damage

10. Nominal damages

11. Exemplary damages

12. Restitutionary damages

13. Liquidated damages

14. The incidence of taxation

15. The awarding of interest

16. The effect of changes in value

17. The recovery of costs, damages and fines incurred in previous proceedings

19. The measure of damages in contract and tort compared

20. Sale of goods

22. Sale of land

23. Lease of land

24. Sale of shares and loan of stock

25. Contracts to pay or to lend money

26. Building contracts

27. Contracts of carriage

28. Contracts of employment

29. Contracts for professional and other services

31. Contracts of warranty or authority by agent

32. Torts affecting goods: damage and destruction

33. Torts affecting goods: misappropriation

34. Torts affecting land

35. Torts causing personal injury

36. Torts causing death

37. Assault and false imprisonment

38. Malicious prosecution and cognate torts

39. Defamation

40. Economic torts

41. Misrepresentation

42. Human rights

43. The statement of case

44. The trial

45. Appeals.

The third supplement to the latest edition of McGregor on Damages covers cases between 2003 and 2006 including cases on asbestos-related disease; private care; indexation of payments, and breach of confidential information. Causation and scope of duty in issue and aspects of exemplary damages and aggravated damages are also considered in a number of cases.

"Up-to-date to beginning of August 2006".

9780421961500

xxviii, 253 pages ; 24 cm