Dear Colleagues:

Congratulations to ODGers Jeff Berryman and Rick Bigwood on the recent publication of The Law of Remedies: New Directions in the Common Law (Irwin, 2010). The book contains papers on remedies that will be of interest to many on the list. From the table of contents:

1 Remedies for Bad Behaviour in Canadian Contract Law, Robert Sharpe

2 Reliance Damages for Breach of Contract, David McLauchlan

3 Fuller and Perdue’s Limitations: Opportunities, Performance, and Quantification,Maree Chetwin

4 Damages for Breach of Contracts with Alternative Performances,Michael G. Pratt

5 Coherence, Non-Pecuniary Loss, and the Construction of Privacy, Michael Tilbury

6 Beyond Dignity? Grant Hammond

7 Redressing Dignitary Injuries and Non-economic Loss in Novel Torts: Challenges for the Law of Remedies, Penelope Watson

8 Holism and Harmony in the Law of Remedies, Ken Cooper-Stephenson

9 Remedies: The Key to the Common Law System? Steve Hedley

10 Beyond Compensation: Apology as a Private Law Remedy, Robyn Carroll

11 Remedies for Breaches of “Public” Obligations: The Equality Principle Meets the Welfare State and the New Constitutionalism, Geoff McLay

12 Addressing the Remedial Interests of Patients after an Adverse Event in Healthcare: The New Zealand Response, Joanna Manning

13 The Crown and Remedies, David Wright

14 Remedies and Accountability for Unlawful Judicial Action in New Zealand: Could the Law be Tidier? Bruce V. Harris

15 A Plea to Reject the United States Supreme Court’s Due-Process Review of Punitive Damages, Doug Rendleman

16 Remedies for Breach of Fiduciary Duty in Joint Ventures, Jessica Palmer

17 Mareva Orders in Globalized Litigation, David Capper

18 Exporting Your Remedy: A Canadian Perspective on the Recognition and Enforcement of Monetary and Other Relief, H. Scott Fairley

19 Damages in Transnational Tort Litigation: Legislative Restrictions and the Substance/Procedure Distinction in Australian Conflict of Laws,Gary Davis

20 The Globalization of Defamation,Russell L. Weaver & David F. Partlett

21 The Class Action as Sheriff: Private Law Enforcement and Remedial Roulette, Peta Spender

22 Class Actions (Representative Proceedings) and the Exercise of the Cy-Pres Doctrine: Time for Improved Scrutiny, Jeff Berryman

Happy Reading,

-- 
Jason Neyers
Associate Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
University of Western Ontario
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