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Kramer: The Law of Contract Damages

Name: Kramer: The Law of Contract Damages
Brand: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
SKU: 9780414130050
Price: 3084.60 HKD
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Author: Adam Kramer KC
ISBN: 9780414130050

By Adam Kramer KC

Sweet & Maxwell U.K. October 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780414130050
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
Publication: October 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Written by a leading commercial barrister and academic, this acclaimed book provides authoritative and insightful analysis of damages for breach of contract, and is an essential resource for practitioners and scholars in the field of commercial law and dispute resolution.

Part I: Introduction; 1.
A Brief Introduction to the Contract Damages Award: Part II: Types of Complaint; 2.
Pure Services: Non-Supply/Defective Supply: 3.
Misadvice (Especially Professional Negligence) and Contractual Misstatement: 4.
Property Non-Delivery and Destruction (including Sale, Construction and Leases): 5.
Property Defects, Damage and Mis-construction: 6.
Valuing Loss in Property Cases Where the Market Replacement and Repair Measures Don’t Apply: 7.
Non-acceptance by the Customer: 8.
Temporary Loss of Use of the Claimant’s Property and Late Delivery: 8.
Loss of Use of Money and Awards of Interest: 10.
Claims by a Tenant, Charterer or Hirer: 11.
Share sales and Other Warranties and Indemnities: 12.
Negative Covenants (Including Exclusive Jurisdiction, Arbitration and Non-compete Clauses): Part III: Factual (“But For”) Causation and Actual Loss; 13.
Introduction to Factual (‘But For’) Causation: 14.
The Breach Position: What Actually Happened and What Will Happen: 15.
The Non-Breach Position: What Would Have Happened but for the Breach (Including Loss of a Chance): Part IV: Legal Principles of Remoteness, Mitigation and Legal Causation; 16.
Remoteness and Scope of Duty: 17.
Legal Causation, Mitigation and Contributory Negligence: 18.
Causation in Practice: Intervening and Mitigatory Acts and Events by Category: 19.
The Date of Assessment: Part V: Particular Types of Loss Requiring Separate Examination; 20.
Proving Business Loss: Revenue, Capital Value, Profit and Costs, Wasted Expenditure/Reliance Losses, Burdens and the Fair Wind: 21.
Non-Pecuniary Loss: 22.
Loss Comprising Liability to Third Parties or Litigation Costs: Part VI: Other Matters; 23.
Third Parties and Loss: 24.
Negotiating Damages: 25.
Non-Compensatory Damages: 26.
Concurrent Claims: 27.
Exclusion Clauses