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