Law Restitution

Goff & Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment, 8th Edition (formerly The Law of Restitution)

Edited by Professor Charles Mitchell · Professor Paul Mitchell · Dr Stephen Watterson
Sweet & Maxwell U.K. December 2011

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781847039101
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
Publication
December 2011
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Commonwealth, U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

NEW IN THE 8TH EDITION

  • A new writing team of established experts in the field ensures you have the latest and most reliable reference tool
  • Provides a clear introduction to the principles behind unjust enrichment
  • Covers of the essential ingredients of a claim such as enrichment, at the claimant’s expense and in circumstances that the law deems unjust, such as mistake, undue influence, duress, failure of basis, necessity, secondary liability, and more
  • Covers all possible defences to claims in unjust enrichment
  • Discusses personal and proprietary remedies awarded to successful claimants such as money judgements, trusts, subrogation to extinguished rights, and rescission
  • Includes clear commentary and annotated explanation of all the recent case law


The new 8th edition covers key new cases, including:

  • Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group Plc v IRC [2007]
  • Abou-Rahmah v Abacha [2007]
  • Halpern v Halpern [2008]
  • Charter plc v City Index Ltd [2008]
  • Sempra Metals Ltd v IRC [2008]
  • Cobbe v Yeoman's Row Management Ltd [2008]
  • Monro v HMRC [2009]
  • Serious Fraud Office v Lexi Holdings plc [2009]
  • Chief Constable of Greater Manchester v Wigan Athletic AFC Ltd [2009]
  • Test Claimants in the FII Group Litigation v HMRC [2010]
  • Gibb v Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust [2010]
  • Haugesund Kommune v Depfa ACS Bank [2011]
  • Benedetti v Sawiris [2010]
  • R (Child Poverty Action Group) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2011]
  • Pitt v Holt [2011]
  • Costello v MacDonald [2011]

 

Table of Contents

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 - Introduction 

PART 2 - JUSTIFYING GROUNDS

Chapter 2 - Justifying Grounds: Statutes, Judgments, and Natural Obligations 
Chapter 3 – Justifying Grounds: Contracts 

PART 3 - ENRICHMENT
Chapter 4 - Enrichment: General Principles 
Chapter 5 - Enrichment: Types of Benefit 

PART 4 - AT THE CLAIMANT’S EXPENS
Chapter 6 - At the Claimant’s Expense: Personal Claims 
Chapter 7 - At the Claimant’s Expense: Proprietary Claims 

PART 5 - GROUNDS FOR RESTITUTION 
Chapter 8 - Lack of Consent and Want of Authority 
Chapter 9 - Mistake 
Chapter 10 - Duress 
Chapter 11 - Undue Influence and Unconscionable Bargains
Chapter 12 - Failure of Basis: General Principles 
Chapter 13 - Failure of Basis: Bases of Transfer 
Chapter 14 – Failure of Basis: Deposits 
Chapter 15 - Frustrated Contracts 
Chapter 16 - Anticipated Contracts that Do Not Materialize
Chapter 17 - Free Acceptance 
Chapter 18 - Necessity 
Chapter 19 - Secondary Liability: Overview 
Chapter 20 - Secondary Liability: Contribution and Reimbursement 
Chapter 21 - Secondary Liability: Insurers’ Subrogation Rights 
Chapter 22 - Money Paid as Taxes and Other Levies that Are Not Due 
Chapter 23 - Ultra Vires Payments by Public Bodies 
Chapter 24 – Legal Incapacity 
Chapter 25 - Illegality
Chapter 26 – Benefits Conferred Under Judgments and Orders that Are Later Reversed

PART 6 - DEFENCES
Chapter 27 - Change of Position 
Chapter 28 - Ministerial Receipt 
Chapter 29 - Bona Fide Purchase and Good Consideration
Chapter 30 - Estoppel 
Chapter 31 - Counter-Restitution Impossible 
Chapter 32 - Passing On 
Chapter 33 - Limitation 
Chapter 34 – Legal Incapacity 
Chapter 35 – Illegality 

PART 7 - REMEDIES
Chapter 36 - Personal Remedies 
Chapter 37 - Proprietary Remedies: General Principles 
Chapter 38 - Proprietary Remedies: Trusts 
Chapter 39 - Proprietary Remedies: Subrogation to Extinguished Rights 
Chapter 40 - Proprietary Restitutionary Remedies: Rescission

About the Author

Charles Mitchell is a Professor of Law at University College London. 

Paul Mitchell
 is a Professor of Law at University College London. He has published widely on the law of obligations, and is an editor of Chitty on Contracts 30th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2008). 

Stephen Watterson
 is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics.

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