This volume explores the theoretical foundations of human rights damages and examines when such damages ought to be awarded, how they ought to be assessed, and the range of damages that ought to be available to remedy a rights-breach.
Damages for breaches of human rights is emerging as an important and practically significant field of law, yet the rules and principles governing such awards and their theoretical foundations remain underexplored, while courts continue to struggle to articulate a coherent law of…
"Casebook on tort law designed for use in law school courses"--
Rights and obligations can arise, amongst other things, in tort or in unjust enrichment. Simone Degeling deals with the phenomenon whereby a stranger to litigation is entitled to participate in the fruits of that litigation. Two prominent examples of this phenomenon are the care…
Degeling explains the phenomenon of shared damages by which a stranger to litigation is entitled to participate in the claimant's damages. Core examples are the carer of a victim of tort who shares in the victim's damages and the indemnity insurer which participates in the damag…
Rights and obligations can arise, amongst other things, in tort or in unjust enrichment. Simone Degeling deals with the phenomenon whereby a stranger to litigation is entitled to participate in the fruits of that litigation. Two prominent examples of this phenomenon are the care…
Degeling explains the phenomenon of shared damages by which a stranger to litigation is entitled to participate in the claimant's damages. Core examples are the carer of a victim of tort who shares in the victim's damages and the indemnity insurer which participates in the damag…