Problems in the Law of Damages

Published: 20-03-2000 Author(s): Professor Julie Maxton, Bruce Gray Pages: 80
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Author(s): Professor Julie Maxton, Bruce Gray
Published: 20 March, 2000
Pages: 80

 

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Content outline

  • Scope of duty
    • The Fair Trading Act 1986
    • Concurrent causes of actions
  • Causation
    • Deliberate acts of third parties
    • Kind of loss
    • Careless valuations
    • Loss of a chance
  • Remoteness
  • Contract
    • The rule in Hadley v Baxendale
    • Criticisms
    • Attempts to develop a test
  • Tort
    • A different degree of foreseeability for tort?
    • Nuisance and circumstances in which foreseeable risk can be ignored
    • Rylands v Fletcher
    • "Eggshell Skull"
    • Third party intervention
    • Kind of loss and degree of loss
  • Equity
    • The development of the remedy of equitable compensation
    • The current state of the law in New Zealand
  • Appropriate remedies
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