McGregor on Damages 22nd ed: 2nd Supplement

A primary reference tool on the general principles and the particular aspects of common law damages, McGregor on Damages is still the leading authority on damages and has been for 60 years.

Part of the Common Law Library, McGregor on Damages provides in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the law, from detailed consideration of the general principles to a full analysis of specific
areas of damages.

Features

• Provides comprehensive coverage of the law of damages, especially in light of numerous important decisions in the last 18 months from the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Includes detailed consideration of the general principles of damages to specific heads of damages and the operation of damages in many specific areas of law
• Different measures of compensation in equity compared with common law
• Date of assessment for damages in equity and at common law
• Operation of the "but for" approach to causation
• Intervening acts and rules of causation and mitigation of loss
• Developments in the law of liquidated damages and penalties
• Damages for late delivery of goods
• Damages in cases of uncertainty and loss of a chance
• Considers damages in the particular areas below:
  • Contracts: Sale of Goods; sale of shares; sale of cryptocurrency; charterparties; building work; delayed delivery; long term contracts; interest.
  • Torts and Equitable Wrongs: Measure of damages for deceit; damages arising from breach of an assumed responsibility by engineers; damages for cumulative exposure torts; licence fee damages and disgorgement of profits from equitable wrongs and intellectual property wrongs.

The new material since the publication of the First Supplement to the 22nd edition of McGregor on Damages includes half a dozen important decisions of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Privy Council and the High Court of Australia, and numerous decisions from the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and High Court.

The topics cover a wide range: measures of compensation in equity for misappropriation of assets by a fiduciary; liquidated damages and penalties; consequential loss clauses; scope of duty, causation, remoteness, and mitigation; damages for delayed delivery of goods and charterparties; damages for defective building work; monetary measures of rescission; and updates on the ranges of quantum of damages for assault, false imprisonment, harassment, libel, and slander.