Contract, Tort, Equity and Intellectual Property
by
James Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2002
On July 27,2000 the House of Lords delivered a decision where, for the first time in English law, it explicitly recognised that damages for civil wrongs can be assessed by reference to a defendant (wrongdoer)'s gain rather than a claimant's loss. The circumstances in which such gain-based damages...