Table of Contents

PART ONE INTRODUCTION
1: General
2: The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998
PART TWO COMPENSATION
SECTION ONE GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN ASSESSING COMPENSATORY DAMAGES
3: Introduction to compensatory damages
4: Factual causation
5: Proof of loss and loss of a chance
6: Contractual reliance damages
7: Principles limiting compensatory damages
8: Compensating advantages
9: Form of compensatory damages, date for assessment, taxation
SECTION TWO DAMAGES FOR THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOSS
10: Pecuniary loss (except consequent on personal injury, death or loss of reputation)
11: Personal injury losses
12: Losses on death
13: Loss of reputation
14: Mental distress or physical inconvenience (except consequent on personal injury or death)
SECTION THREE MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES RELEVANT TO COMPENSATORY DAMAGES
15: Interest as damages and interest on damages
16: Limitation periods
17: Equitable (compensatory) damages
18: Negotiating damages
PART THREE RESTITUTION AND PUNISHMENT
19: Restitutionary remedies (for torts and breach of contract)
20: Punitive damages
PART FOUR COMPELLING PERFORMANCE OR PREVENTING (OR COMPELLING THE UNDOING OF) A WRONG
21: The award of an agreed sum
22: Specific performance
23: Injunctions
24: Delivery up
PART FIVE DECLARING RIGHTS
25: Nominal and contemptuous damages and declarations
PART SIX REMEDIES FOR EQUITABLE WRONGS
26: Remedies for equitable wrongs

About the Author

Andrew Burrows, MA, DCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple is Professor of the Law of England in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He sits as a Deputy High Court Judge and is a Door Tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London. He was President of the Society of Legal Scholars (2015-16) and a Law Commissioner for England and Wales (1994-1999). He has written extensively on the areas of contract,
tort and unjust enrichment and his other books include The Law of Restitution, Understanding the Law of Obligations, A Casebook on Contract, A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment, A
Restatement of the English Law of Contract and Thinking about Statutes: Interpretation, Interaction, Improvement. He is a joint author of Anson s Law of Contract, the general editor of English Private Law and an editor of Chitty on Contracts and Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.