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Mason & Carter's Restitution Law in Australia, 4th Edition

Mason & Carter's Restitution Law in Australia, 4th Edition

Author: Keith Mason; John Carter; Gregory Tolhurst
Publisher: LexisNexis Australia
ISBN: 9780409352252
Published In: July 2021
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Australia ? Disclaimer:
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Restitution is one of the law’s few remaining commons, largely untouched by statute. Fifty years ago restitution was a wilderness, an apparent ‘miscellany of disparate categories’ through which litigant, judge and student trudged holding a compass marked ‘implied contract’ at its four points. The landscape of the modern Australian law of restitution, however, is complex. The topic of restitution addressed by the authors includes doctrines responding to different policies as well as gain-based remedies appurtenant to wrongs with their juridical source outside unjust enrichment, which is only one of the bases for restitution.

The fourth edition has been fully revised and updated and some chapters rewritten. There is extensive reference to Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd (2019), a High Court decision welcomed as to its outcome and its reversal of decisions criticised in earlier editions. The unorthodox and confusing reasoning of the justices, and the dangers posed to the coherent structure of restitution law, are also discussed.

This authoritative analysis of the law of restitution is essential reading for members of the judiciary, barristers and solicitors, as well as students of commercial law, equity and remedies.

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• Authoritative analysis by pre-eminent authors
• Scholarly
• Comprehensive

PART I — INTRODUCTION
1. Restitution, Quasi-contract and Unjust Enrichment
2. Classifying Claims and Remedies in Restitution

PART II — CLAIMS BASED ON WANT OF TITLE
3. Want of Title: Misdirected Funds and Tracing

PART III — MISTAKE
4. Mistake

PART IV — CLAIMS BASED ON LEGAL OR MORAL COMPULSION
5. Improper Pressure
6. Bearing Others’ Burdens: Contribution, Recoupment and Subrogation
7. Judgments Reversed or Set Aside
8. Necessitous Intervention: Restitution for Unsolicited Services or Payments

PART V — INEFFECTIVE CONTRACTS
9. Introduction to Ineffective Contracts
10. Inherently Ineffective Contracts
11. Contracts Discharged for Breach or Repudiation
12. Contracts Discharged Without Breach
13. Contracts Rescinded or Set Aside
14. Valuation and Adjustment

PART VI — CLAIMS BASED ON WRONG COMMITTED
15. Introduction to Wrongs
16. Tort
17. Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Breach of Confi dence and
Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights
18. Breach of Contract
19. Wrongful Killing: The Forfeiture Rule

PART VII — SPECIAL CLAIMS INVOLVING THE EXECUTIVE
20. Restitution against the Revenue
21. Restitution of Ultra Vires Disbursements from the Revenue

PART VIII — DEFENCES
22. Introduction to Defences
23. Election
24. Change of Position
25. Consideration and Bona Fide Purchase
26. Illegality
27. Delay

PART IX —INTEREST AND PLEADING RESTITUTIONARY
CLAIMS AND DEFENCES
28. Interest
29. Pleading Restitutionary Claims and Defences

K Mason is a Professorial Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales. He was formerly President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal.

J W Carter is Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney, General Editor of theJournal of Contract Law and a Consultant to Herbert Smith Freehills. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

G J Tolhurst is Professor of Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. He is also a consultant to Herbert Smith Freehills.

Comments from reviewers :
'An excellent, accessible account of the modern law of restitution in Australia which will prove to be of enormous benefit to practitioners in Australia and which can be read with profit by all lawyers with an interest in this fascinating subject' [(1996) 112 Law Quarterly Review 691].

'A detailed masterly exposition, with meticulous cross-referencing' ([1996] Restitution Law Review 147).