Table of Contents

1: Unjust enrichment and competing theories
2: The essential ingredients of a claim for restitution of an unjust enrichment
3: Mistake
4: Ignorance
5: Failure of consideration
6: Illegitimate pressure
7: Undue influence and exploitation of weakneess
8: Legal compulsion: compulsory discharge of another's legal liability
9: Necessity
10: Illegality as a ground for restitution
11: Incapacity as a ground for restitution
12: Ultra vires demands by public authorities
13: Tracing and Proprietary Restitution
14: Defences
15: Restitution for Wrongs

About the Author

Andrew Burrows QC is Professor of the Law of England University of Oxford, Fellow of All Souls College; Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple; Recorder on the South-Eastern Circuit; and barrister at Fountain Court Chambers, London.
Ewan McKendrick is Professor of English Private Law at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, and a member of Chambers at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn.
James Edelman is a CUF lecturer at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Keble College; Barrister, Western Australia; and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition "The editors' commentary throughout the book is diverse and interesting."'
Steve Hedley, "The Cambridge Law Journal", 1998.
`'...Burrows and McKendrick is a model casebook. The layout and appearance of the material is excellent. At the beginning, there is a comprehensive and clear list of contents, which helpfully includes the names of all the cases and articles extracted within...As far as the material selected for inclusion is concerned, Burrows and McKendrick have done a difficult task extremely well...The authors are to be congratulated on an excellent book. With works of
this calibre on the desks of our students, the future health of restitution will be assured.''
Donal Nolan, King's College London, Lloyd's Maritime and Commerical Law Quarterly