Special Lectures 2005. The Modern Law of Damages
- Publisher:
- Irwin Law Inc.
- Publication date:
- 2006-08-31
- Authors:
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- ISBN:
- 9781459313750
Description:
This volume is the first Special Lectures devoted exclusively to the Law of Damages since 1958 and promises to become an essential reference tool for civil litigators for many years to come. This significant publication has been developed by a distinguished faculty providing the latest knowledge concerning contemporary issues affecting the law of damages. The program chairs are Terrence J. O’Sullivan of Lax O’Sullivan Scott LLP & Linda R. Rothstein of Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP.
Index
- Preliminary Sections
- Preface
- Assessing Damages in Class Actions
- Damages in Competition Law
- Damages in Constitutional Cases
- Unjust Enrichment
- Restitution as an Alternative to Damages in Contract and Tort
- Is it Time to Revisit the Trilogy?
- Judging Cause and Effect: Challenges and Trends in Assessing Damages in Sexual Abuse Cases
- Psychiatric Injury Claims
- Contingencies; Loss of Interpersonal Relationships; The Material Contribution Test; and Punitive, Exemplary, and Aggravated Damages
- Commercial Law Damages: Market Efficiency or Regulation of Behaviour?
- Damages for Capital Market Liability: The Impact of Mitigation, Valuation, and Market Uncertainty
- Convergence of Contract and Tort: Damages in the Age of Concurrent Liability
- Establishing Economic Loss
- Wild Justice on the Compensation/Punishment Frontier: An Attempt to Make Some Sense of Aggravated and Punitive Damages after Whiten
- Recent Developments Relating to the Awarding of Damages within an Employment Law Context: A Unifying Theory
- Table of Cases
- Index