Accounting for profit for breach of contract : theory and practice / Katy Barnett
- Bib ID:
- 6073587
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Barnett, Katy, Dr
- Description:
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- Oxford ; Portland, OR : Hart Pub., ©2012
- xxiv, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781849462518
- 1849462518
- Series:
- Hart studies in private law ; v. 2
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction
- I.Method
- A.Fit
- B.Coherence
- C.Morality
- D.Transparency
- II.Conclusion
- 2.Rationales Behind Disgorgement Damages
- I.Introduction
- II.Compensatory Rationale
- A.Compensation for Loss
- B.Substitutive Compensation
- i.Compensation for a Lost Right
- ii.Rights-based Analysis
- C.Conclusion
- III.Deterrent Rationale
- A.Deterrence and the Nature of Contractual Obligation
- B.Deterrence and Efficiency
- C.Deterrence and Substitutability
- IV.Retributive Rationale
- A.The Retributive Aspect of Disgorgement Damages
- B.Digital Pulse and Punishment
- C.`Cynical Breach' and the Retributive Rationale
- i.The Nature of `Cynical Breach'
- ii.Reasons Against `Cynical Breach' as a Criterion
- iii.Reasons For `Cynical Breach' as a Criterion
- iv.Moving from `Cynical Breach' to `Advertent Breach'
- D.Retribution, Desert, Mercy and Bars to Relief
- V.Conclusion
- Contents note continued: 3.The Claimant's `Legitimate Interest' and the Role of Substitutability
- I.Introduction
- II.The `Legitimate Interest' Test and Substitutability
- III.Policies behind the Primary Duty to Perform Contracts
- IV.The Performance Interest
- A.The Courts' Attitude towards the Performance Interest: Support in Principle
- B.The Courts' Attitude towards the Performance Interest: Failure to Support Claimants in Practice with Remedies?
- i.The Nature of the Expectation Interest
- ii.The Primacy of Expectation Damages
- V.Substitutability and Disgorgement
- A.Disgorgement should be Available when the Subject Matter of the Contract is Not Substitutable
- B.Substitutability
- - Blake and Cases Following
- i.Blake
- ii.Cases Following Blake
- VI.Objections to a Substitutability Analysis
- A.Using Availability of Specific Relief as a Peg on which to HangAvailability of Disgorgement Damages
- Contents note continued: B.Disgorgement Preferable to an Expanded Definition of Expectation Loss
- C.Disgorgement Damages are not a Fusion Fallacy
- VII.Conclusion: a Different Way of Looking at Disgorgement Damages
- 4.`Second Sale' Cases
- I.Introduction
- II.`Second Sale' Cases
- A.Contracts for Sale of Land
- B.Contracts for Sale of Goods or Chattels
- C.Contracts for Shares and Stock
- D.Contracts of Services
- III.`Efficient Breach' and the `Second Sale' Cases
- A.History of `Efficient Breach' Theory
- B.The Theory of `Efficient Breach'
- C.Critiques of `Efficient Breach'
- i.Third Party Can Acquire Subject Matter of the Contract from Promisee
- ii.Lack of Consideration of Transaction Costs
- iii.Incorrect Factual Predicates
- iv.`Efficient Breach' is Inefficient
- v.`Efficient Breach' Does Not Fit with the Law
- D.Conclusion to `Efficient Breach'
- IV.Conclusion
- 5.`Agency Problem' Cases
- I.Introduction
- II.The `Agency Problem' and Disgorgement
- Contents note continued: A.Disgorgement, the `Agency Problem' and Fiduciary Duties
- B.Disgorgement, the `Agency Problem' and Negative Covenants
- III.The Fiduciary `Bundle of Obligations'
- IV.Criteria for the Award of Disgorgement Damages for Breach ofNegative Covenant
- A.Criterion 1: Substitutability
- B.Criterion 2: a Contract Designed to Serve Interests Other than Profit-making
- i.Contracts Involving a Proprietary or Quasi-proprietary Interest
- ii.Contracts Involving National Security or the National Interest
- iii.Contracts Involving Resolution of a Legal Dispute
- iv.Contracts Involving the Protection of Third Party Family Members
- v.Other Contracts Involving the Public Interest
- V.Conclusion
- 6.The Role of `Restitutionary Damages'
- I.Introduction
- II.What are `Restitutionary Damages'?
- III.Restitutionary Damages
- - Still Unhappy
- IV.A Collapsing of Categories
- V.When Should `Reasonable Fee' Awards be Granted?
- Contents note continued: VI.Scope of Disgorgement for `Skimped Performance'
- A.Skimped Performance and the `Restoration Cases'
- i.Construction Contracts and Other Cases Involving Building
- ii.Contracts for Restoration of Land
- B.Skimped Performance and Contracts Designed to Reduce Risk
- VII.Conclusion: Choice of Remedy
- 7.Allowances and Bars to Relief
- I.Introduction
- II.Calculating the Account
- - Causation, Remoteness and Apportionment
- A.The Nature of the Account
- B.Causation and Remoteness
- C.Apportionment
- III.Desert and Mercy
- A.The Nature of `Desert'
- B.The Nature of `Mercy'
- IV.Allowances and Disgorgement Damages
- A.Justifications for Allowances
- B.Advertence and Allowances
- V.Operation of Bars to Relief
- A.Delay and Acquiescence
- B.Lack of Clean Hands
- C.Hardship
- VI.Conclusion
- 8.Conclusion.
- Notes:
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- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Melbourne, 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-226) and index.
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